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War and the Media

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During the Gulf war, news of the conflict was virtually harnessed by the American-led alliance. Yet, when U.S. soldiers moved on Somalia without resistance, their landing was lent a surreal quality by hordes of journalists filming their every maneuver. In this age of instant communication, wars are often defined by their coverage, as with Vietnam; yet the symbiosis between warriors and journalists has a long history. War and the Media provides a sweeping overview of how the media has covered international conflicts in this century. Devoting each of the book's twelve chapters to a particular conflict, from the world wars to Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf War, and the Balkans, Miles Hudson and John Stanier here trace the evolution of the often contentious and always dramatic role of the media in twentieth-century military campaigns.
Miles Hudson is the author of Triumph and Tragedy: Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. John Stanier is the first officer of the British Army to have held the post of Director of Public Relations and was Chief of the General Staff from 1982 to 1985.
"A first-rate study by one of the leading members of the new generation of scholars of the Ku Klux Klan. Lay offers the first look beneath the hood and robe of the Invisible Empire in a northeastern stronghold." -Robert A. Goldberg, author of "Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado" "A welcome complement to recent work on the Klan in the South, West, and Midwest. This beautifully written, exhaustively researched, and even-handed study of the KKK in Buffalo is a model for future Klan scholarship."-Larry R. Gerlach, author of "Blazing Crosses in Zion: The Ku Klux Klan in Utah"
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