the first casualty

This book discusses the impact that the media, particularly the war correspondents, have had on society during and after wars between the years 1854 and 1975. It recounts wars from many different countries and raises questions on how correspondents should report, what they should report and when they should report it.

The author, Phillip Knightley, is a special correspondent on the Sunday Times in London. With his colleagues on the Insight team, he is author of The Philby Conspiracy, The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, and The Pearl of Days. He has never heard a shot f

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This is why I feel everyone should get a chance to read this book. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Special care was given to the way they looked and acted during a war, when it would seem war tactics might be more important. It came to the point where people were sent to countries to push them into a war, just to have something to report.

In early wars, British officers brought their servants, chefs, dogs and wives to war with them.

War correspondents faced problems when war officials wouldn’t recognize they were there. Correspondents couldn’t find out or see what was happening. Our world was changed and formed on the basis of misinformation. At first I felt the book was good for journalists or history buffs, but I now feel everyone should read it and understand the lies that were fed to us for centuries. And though there was greater coverage, this doesn’t mean there was any truth in it.

Correspondents didn’t look for a way to report truth or analyze how their reporting was affecting the world.

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Approximate Word count = 595
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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