TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Woods, Philip
AU  -  Woods, Philip
TI  - Reporting the Retreat : : War Correspondents in Burma, 1942
SN  - 9781849047173
U1  - 303.3760 WOO 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford 
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  -  Social Science
KW  -  Social Processe
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Journalists
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage
KW  - War correspondents -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - War correspondents
N2  - 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
ER  -