Witnesses to War The History of Australian Conflict Reporting

by Anderson, Fay; Trembath, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780522856446
• ISBN10: 0522856446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Summary

WITNESSES TO WAR is a landmark history of Australian war journalism that covers the major conflicts of the 20th Century: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. WITNESSES TO WAR looks at how journalists reported the horrors and politics of war, the rise of the celebrity journalist, issues of censorship and the ethics of 'embedding'. Interviews with leading war correspondents including John Pilger, Paul McGeough and Chris Masters reveal the challenges of covering wars and how they personally deal with the violence they witness. Many describe becoming desensitised to the horror. Many other journalists are permanently marked by it.

Author Biography

Fay Anderson (Author) : Fay Anderson is a lecturer at the Australian Centre in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She was educated at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. After graduating, Fay lived in Paris and Jerusalem for several years. Fay’s PhD thesis was published in 2005 by Melbourne University Publishing and entitled, An Historian’s Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom. Richard Trembath (Author) : Richard Trembath teaches history at the University of Melbourne. He has co-authored All Care and Responsibility, a history of the nursing profession in Victoria, and in 2005 published A Different Sort of War about the Australian experience of the Korean War. In 2008, Richard co-authored Divine Discontent, a new history of the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Much of Richard’s work has involved interviews and oral history. Currently he is researching the story of Australia’s indigenous soldiers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
List of Abbreviations	p. viii
Introduction: 'Getting the Story'	p. 1
Colonial Conflicts: From the New Zealand Wars to the Boer War	p. 20
World War I: 'A Baptism of Fire'	p. 43
Between Two Wars: The Evolution of the Profession, 1918-1939	p. 91
World War II: 'A Devil's Symphony'	p. 108
War on the Doorstep: The Pacific	p. 170
Cold War Conflicts and the Wars of Decolonisation	p. 209
'From Our Correspondent': The Middle East, Africa and the Balkans	p. 263
'Shock and Awe': The Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq	p. 313
Appendix	p. 376
Notes	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 449
Index	p. 482
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