Knightley,THE FIRST CASUALTY,1976[Crimea,Vietnam,corrispondente di guerra

Phillip Knightley,
THE FIRST CASUALTY.
From the Crimea to Vietnam:
The War Correspondent as Hero,
Propagandist, and Myth Maker.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London 1976,
copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 16x24 cm., pp.465,
illustrazioni fotografiche in bianco e nero,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.994

cod.3462

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CONTENTS

I. “The Miserable Parent of a Luckless Tribe” 1854-1856 3
2. The First Challenge 1861-1865 19
3. The Golden Age 1865-1914 41
4. Quite Another Game 1899-1902 65
5. The Last War 1914-1918 79
6. Enter America 1917-1918 113
7. The Remedy for Bolshevism Is Bullets 1917-1919 137
8. The Real Scoop 1935-1936 171
9. Commitment in Spain 1936-1939 191
10. “Their Finest Hour” 1939-1941 217
ii. The Struggle for Mother Russia 1941-1945 243
12. Remember Pearl Harbor 1937-1945 269
13. Never Again 1940-1945 303
14. Korea, the United Nations’War 1950-1953 335
15. Algeria Is French 1954-1962 357
16. Vietnam 1954-1975 373
17. War Is Fun 1954-1975 401
Acknowledgements 427
Notes on Sources 429
Selected Bibliography 443
Index 447