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The First Casualty

From Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq

by Phillip Knightley

1975 465 pages eng

*The First Casualty* when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times…

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