The price of truth : the journalist who defied military censors to report the fall of Nazi Germany /
Fine, Richard,
The price of truth : the journalist who defied military censors to report the fall of Nazi Germany / Richard Fine. - 290 pages illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The War's Messiest Media Story -- Reporting the War in Europe -- The Military's Approach to the Press -- Reims -- "Unmention Use Phone" -- At the Hotel Scribe -- The Debate -- The Surrender Fiasco's Long Tail -- Media-Military Relations in the Good War.
"This book examines the circumstances of AP journalist Edward Kennedy's bypassing military censorship to break the news of the German surrender he had just witnessed on May 7, 1945, and assesses the controversy that followed"--
9781501765940 1501765949
2022034161
GBC330477 bnb
020957230 Uk
Kennedy, Ed, 1905-1963.
World War, 1939-1945--Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship.
War correspondents--History--20th century.
The price of truth : the journalist who defied military censors to report the fall of Nazi Germany / Richard Fine. - 290 pages illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The War's Messiest Media Story -- Reporting the War in Europe -- The Military's Approach to the Press -- Reims -- "Unmention Use Phone" -- At the Hotel Scribe -- The Debate -- The Surrender Fiasco's Long Tail -- Media-Military Relations in the Good War.
"This book examines the circumstances of AP journalist Edward Kennedy's bypassing military censorship to break the news of the German surrender he had just witnessed on May 7, 1945, and assesses the controversy that followed"--
9781501765940 1501765949
2022034161
GBC330477 bnb
020957230 Uk
Kennedy, Ed, 1905-1963.
World War, 1939-1945--Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage.
World War, 1939-1945--Censorship.
War correspondents--History--20th century.