The First Casualty
Subtitle: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780801869518
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Press & journalism; Propaganda; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; War; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; USA; War correspondents; Journalism; History / Europe / General; United States - General; World - General; Press coverage
First sentence: "At ten minutes past eleven our Light Cavalry Brigade advanced...They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war... At the distance of 1,200 yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouth"