TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yvonne McEwen
AU  - Fiona A. Fisken
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035303025
TI  - War, Journalism and History
T2  - War Correspondents in the Two World Wars- With a foreword by Phillip Knightley
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0302-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052492
N2  - War, Journalism and History is the first published work to examine an eclectic mix of correspondents during the two world wars who were prepared, often at great personal cost, to inform the public about the obscenity of warfare. Throughout both world wars the lack of credible information being dispatched from fighting fronts to the home front led to the creation of an information vacuum. The void was filled by war correspondents: the heroes, sometimes anti-heroes, of news reporting. This edited volume examines the lives and works of maverick war correspondents such as Richard Dimbleby, Vasilii Grossman, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Albert Londres, Vera Brittain, and others who, whether through the use of pen or camera, typewriter or radio, tried to secure the integrity of wartime reporting and accurately record history in the making.
KW  - obscenity, news reporting, integrity, personal cost
LA  - English
ER  -