Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting

by Richard Trembath and Fay Anderson

Witnesses to War is a landmark history of Australian war journalism covering the regional conflicts of the nineteenth century to the major conflicts of the twentieth: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath look at how journalists reported the horrors and politics of war, the rise of the celebrity journalist, issues of censorship and the ethics of 'embedding'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522856446
• ISBN13: 9780522856446
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"