The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam The War Correspondent As Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by Knightley, Phillip - 1975

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Second Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in FINE Condition. Mylar jacket cover. Winner of the Overseas Press Club Award as the best book on foreign affairs for 1975. Binding of black cloth with gilt titles on spine and slightly lighter shade of black inset with gilt outlined figures within. Handsome volume--clean, unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Page edges and pages are very clean, no markings of any kind. Knightley explores the evolution of war correspondents since William Howard Russell of the London Times went to the Crimea in 1854. He looks critically at the major wars of the past 120 years, trying to distinguish fact from myth and examines to what extent the war correspondent may have been responsible for the myth. The British, American, German, Japanese, Russian, French and Italian correspondents and the systems controlling them are all described and assessed. 465 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1975.