First Casualty : The War Correspondent As Hero And Myth-maker From The Crimea To Iraq, Paperback by Knightley, Phillip, ISBN 0801880300, ISBN-13 9780801880308, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Knightley takes his fellow journalists to task in this history of war journalism in which he contends that, since Vietnam, governments have become increasingly adept at managing the media. He augments the third edition of his work, originally published in 1975, with discussions of the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the conflict between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo. Knightley has also added a chapter on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where he describes even greater degrees of government manipulation and media complicity. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()