Reporting the Retreat : War Correspondents in Burma, 1942 / Philip Woods
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TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2016Description: xx, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9781849047173Subject(s): Social Science | Social Processe | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Journalists | World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage | War correspondents -- History -- 20th century | Press coverage | War correspondentsDDC classification: 303.3760 WOO Summary: The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end of British rule, not only in Burma but also in south and south-east Asia. This book looks at the way the campaign was represented in the Western media: newspapers, pictorial magazines, and newsreels. There were some twenty-six accredited war correspondents covering the campaign, and almost half of them wrote books about their experiences, mostly within a year or two of the defeat. Their accounts were censored by government officials as being misinformed and sensationalist. More recent historians, on the other hand, have criticised them for being too patriotic and optimistic in their coverage and thus giving the public an unrealistic view of how the war was progressing. The author returns to the original sources to assess the validity of these criticisms.--Publisher's description.
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| 303.34 SPE The Power of Servant Leadership : | 303.372 HOB The Invention of Tradition | 303.372 NUS Creating capabilities | 303.3760 WOO Reporting the Retreat | 303.38 SUR The wisdom of crowds | 303.38 SUR The wisdom of crowds | 303.4 DIA Guns, germs, and steel : |
The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end of British rule, not only in Burma but also in south and south-east Asia. This book looks at the way the campaign was represented in the Western media: newspapers, pictorial magazines, and newsreels. There were some twenty-six accredited war correspondents covering the campaign, and almost half of them wrote books about their experiences, mostly within a year or two of the defeat. Their accounts were censored by government officials as being misinformed and sensationalist. More recent historians, on the other hand, have criticised them for being too patriotic and optimistic in their coverage and thus giving the public an unrealistic view of how the war was progressing. The author returns to the original sources to assess the validity of these criticisms.--Publisher's description.
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