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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq (Johns Hopkins Paperback) (3rd Edition) by Mr. Phillip Knightley Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-8018-8030-0 / 0801880300 ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8030-8 / 9780801880308 "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 |