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020			_a9781849047173
028			_a:Atlantic Publishers & Distributors _b:7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c:1097244 _d:17/06/19
082			_a303.3760 WOO
100			_a Woods, Philip
245			_aReporting the Retreat _b: War Correspondents in Burma, 1942 _c/ Philip Woods
260			_aOxford _b: Oxford University Press, _c©2016
300			_axx, 206 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c; 23 cm
365			_b1872
520			_aThe 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.
650			_a Social Science.
650			_a Social Processe
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma -- Journalists.
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage.
650			_aWar correspondents -- History -- 20th century.
650			_aPress coverage.
650			_aWar correspondents.
700			_a Woods, Philip
942			_cBOOK