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THE FIRST CASUALTY -- FROM THE CRIMEA TO VIETNAM: THE WAR CORRESPONDENT AS HERO, PROPAGANDIST, AND MYTH MAKER
by Knightley, Phillip
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0151312648
- ISBN 13
- 9780151312641
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. "...looks critically at the major wars of the past 120 years, tries to distinguish fact from myth, and examines to what extent the war correspondent has been responsible for myths." 465 pp. with index. DJ is G+ with wear to edges, corners and faces, small tears and creasing to spine ends, brown stains to interior. Black cloth covers with gilt image on front and gilt title on spine. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed, cover has brown/white residue on both faces and on endpapers, spine ends bent. Interior clean. Book in Good+ condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/Good+. Illus. by Illustrations. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Journalism.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005508
- Title
- THE FIRST CASUALTY -- FROM THE CRIMEA TO VIETNAM: THE WAR CORRESPONDENT AS HERO, PROPAGANDIST, AND MYTH MAKER
- Author
- Knightley, Phillip
- Illustrator
- Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151312648
- ISBN 13
- 9780151312641
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journalism/Writing;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"
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About the Seller
Bee Creek Books
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