21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties, Army Field Manual Revised Edition, Anthrax, Smallpox, Plague, ... Destruction WMD, First Responder Ringbound)

21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties, Army Field Manual Revised Edition, Anthrax, Smallpox, Plague, ... Destruction WMD, First Responder Ringbound)
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21st Century Essential NBC Reference Series: Treatment of Biological Warfare Agent Casualties, Army Field Manual Revised Edition, Anthrax, Smallpox, Plague, ... Destruction WMD, First Responder Ringbound)
Department of Defense
Manufacturer: Progressive Management
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound
ASIN: 1592486134

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This is an up-to-date version of a classic military field manual considered to be a vital reference for the treatment of biological weapon agents and bioterrorism attacks. It serves as a guide and a reference for trained members of the Armed Forces Medical Services and other medically qualified personnel on the recognition and treatment of biological warfare (BW) agent casualties.

Information contained in this publication may also be relevant for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with naturally acquired diseases or illnesses due to pathogens with BW potential. It classifies and describes potential BW agents, provides procedures for collecting, handling and labeling, shipping, and identifying potential BW agents, describes procedures for medical diagnosing, treating, and management of BW casualties, and describes medical management and treatment in BW operations.

The treatment modalities contained in this manual differ from standard textbooks in that they apply to BW agent exposures. The method of exposure for most BW agents is by inhalation; whereas, the endemic disease exposure (if applicable) is by other means. Some of the disease agents covered include: anthrax, brucellosis, melioidosis, glanders, plague, Q fever, tularemia, viral agents, smallpox, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, viral hemorrhagic fevers, toxins, clostridium botulinum toxin, clostridium perfringen toxins, ricin, saxitoxin, staphylococcal enterotoxin B, and trichothecene mycotoxins.

For each disease, it provides general information, agent delivery method, environmental detection, prevention, clinical presentation and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, control of patients, contacts, and treatment areas, and medical evacuation.

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Emergency handbook

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Seemed "average" to me.....
A good war story in space.

The First Casualty
Mike Moscoe
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Seemed "average" to me............1999-07-04

Good space battles between ships, but some of the physics involved seemed "wrong" to me. Maybe I shouldn't gripe about physics in a book involving FTL space flight, but when a ship accellerates at 3 gees for several days, it should have to decellerate at the same rate for the same time as well. Too often the ships just seem to come to a stop, or at least the author doesn't describe that several days of braking were involved. Minor gripe? Possibly, and I for one could have done without the sappy and cliche drama of Major Longknife and his wife as well. It's an okay book if you're just looking for some mindless entertainment, but thought-provoking, it is not.

A good war story in space........1999-04-06

Moscoe has a nice clean writing style that provides just the right level of detail to form his universe and the fighting situations. I enjoy a good sci-fi war story and the author provides it. The central characters are divided between a ground based marine fighting unit and a ship based "naval" unit, and the two story lines merge to climax a good tale.

Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief

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Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief
Suzanne Evans
Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0773531882

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Maternal love is considered the most unconditional form of love, yet mothers have been prepared to sacrifice their children, or to see them sacrificed, for a "noble" cause. Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs shows that, across cultures and historical eras, in times of great stress societies will channel all their resources, even maternal love and grief, toward a common cause. Suzanne Evans finds commonalities between the many images of war mothers - the Canadian Silver Cross mother, the ancient Jewish Maccabean mother of seven martyred sons, the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber. She compares the lore about mothers of martyrs in the Judeo-Christian, Muslim, and Sikh traditions with stories of World War I Canadian mothers who were depicted in the media as having sacrificed their sons for the sake of civilization, justice, freedom, and God. After the war these mothers were honoured with the Silver Cross medal. Evans argues that, like the mothers of past martyrs, the image of the war-supportive mother in Canada had a powerful influence over public opinion and drew supporters to the cause. "I remember as a young mother looking at a picture of a Palestinian woman who had just lost her child to martyrdom but was smiling with a serene pride. This was the first time I had come across the phrases "mother of martyr" or "Intifada smile." How could a woman show joy over the death of her child? I could not get the question out of my mind. I later discovered that stories of women who publicly rejoice on the death of a child in support of their community have been told for centuries in the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Sikh traditions. There was a depth and complexity to the image of a mother of a martyr that required much more than a passing glance to be understood." From Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs

UNDER THE GUNS OF THE KAISER'S ACES: Bohome, Muller, Von Tutschek and Wolff The Complete Record of Their Victories and Victims

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An exhaustive profile of four distinguished German aces

UNDER THE GUNS OF THE KAISER'S ACES: Bohome, Muller, Von Tutschek and Wolff The Complete Record of Their Victories and Victims
Norman Franks
Manufacturer: Grub Street
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ASIN: 1904010024

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Following their imaginative, popular and successful approach to identifying and describing all the airmen who were claimed by Manfred von Richthofen in Under the Guns of the Red Baron, and by Immelmann, Voss, Goring and Lothar von Richthofen in Under the Guns of the German Aces, air historians Franks and Giblin have put four more equally distinguished German aces of World War One under the microscope.

In doing so, they profile not only the aces themselves, all of whom received the 'Blue Max' - Germany's highest award for bravery in action - but also the Allied airmen they fought and downed. By extensive and exhaustive research into records, and carefully studying maps, timings and intelligence reports - contemporary and retrospective - as full a picture as possible is revealed with excellent photographic coverage of the many protagonists involved.

All four of the aces, Bohme, Muller, von Tutschek and Wolff were unit leaders at different times, one commanded a Jagdesgeschwader, the others commanded Jagdstaffels. All four were destined to die in actions against the Royal Flying Corps. Every one of their combats is detailed here, with colour artwork. This is the last in the 'Under the Guns' trilogy, to complete the set.

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An exhaustive profile of four distinguished German aces.......2003-11-13

Expertly compiled and co-written by World War I history experts Norman Franks and Hal Giblin, Under The Guns Of The Kaiser's Aces: Bohme, Muller, Von Tutschek And Wolff - The Complete Record Of Their Victories And Victims, is an exhaustive profile of four distinguished German aces of World War One, which informatively examines their personal and professional lives, including the aerial combat deeds that earned them the "Blue Max" (Germany's highest award for bravery in action). Under The Guns Of The Kaiser's Aces also includes the lives of the Allied airmen these German Aces fought and downed, and as well as their own deaths incurred by battling against the Royal Flying Corps. Black-and-white photographs, a wealth of details, painstaking research, and revealing insights from two true experts on the WWI and WW II air wars mark Under The Guns Of The Kaiser's Aces As a fascinating read for military aviation enthusiasts, as well as a major and significant contribution for World War I Military History reference collections.

The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq (Johns Hopkins Paperback)

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The War Correspondent as a Coward, Propagandist, and a Liar
excellent history of (biased) reporting
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq (Johns Hopkins Paperback)
Phillip Knightley
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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ASIN: 0801880300

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"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times of London, to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, The First Casualty tells a fascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression.

Since Vietnam, Knightley reveals, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, as highlighted in chapters on the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the conflict between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo. And in a new chapter on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Knightley details even greater degrees of government manipulation and media complicity, as evidenced by the "embedding" of reporters in military units and the uncritical, openly patriotic coverage of these conflicts. "The age of the war correspondent as hero," he concludes, "appears to be over." Fully updated, The First Casualty remains required reading for anyone concerned about freedom of the press, journalistic responsibility, and the nature of modern warfare.

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The War Correspondent as a Coward, Propagandist, and a Liar.......2007-02-27

Phillip Knightley's book THE FIRST CASUALTY is an informative summary of war correspondents who deliberately distort and lie about war. These correspondents not only lie and report non-events, they also omit crucial information. The tragedy is that these men do so quite willingly

Knightley begins this study with the Crimean War (1854-1856) and the Boer War (1898-1902). Knightley corrects many of the distortions that were reported and informs readers of events ingnored at the time. Knightley also examines deeds of daring which never took place. Knightley's book discusses British and in particularly Australian atrocities during the Boer War which first went unreported but were later blamed on the rank-and-file infantry who were following orders of "superior" officers. The reporting blamed the rand-and-file and exonerated the officers who were actually responsible.

Knightley's study of war correspondents during World War I is thorough. He reports of war journalists who badly distorted the record to the point that events were actually the opposite of what was written. There is on anecdote that bears attention. One journalist was offered huge payments if he could produce photographs and write stories about the atrocities of the "wicked" Germans. In spite of promises of huge payments, he was honest enough to admit he found none. Other war correspondents were not as honorable and wrote considerable bildge which went unexamined for a considerable time.

Knightley's discussion of the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Bolsheviks/Communists. This part of the book would have been comical if the events had not been so tragic. As soon as the Bolsheviks stated they could not afford to pay Czar Nicholus' war debts, the Americans, French, British, Czechs, and Japanese sent forces to Russia to overthrow the Bolsheviks. The government officials who sent these troops were at cross purposes,and even the Whites', those opposed to the Bolshevik Reds, could not tolerate the outside invaders. There were accounts of the Whites fighting their "allies", and duruing one of the battles, American soldiers were lost who were supposedly in Russia to help the Whites, not fight them. The economic and social dislocation were so bad that diseases killed millions of Russians. All the Bolsheviks had to do was wait for their enemies to make all the mistakes.

The interwar wars (1920-1939) produced the same dismal journalistic lying. Two events that Knightley covers are the war between the Ethiopeans and the Spanish Civil War. Both the Spanish "leftests" especially the Communists and the Phalangists led by Franco had their supporters who wrote considerable nonsense about their
"side" and evil of their foes. The Communist journalists were the worst. They not only smeared and vilified any who disagreed with them, but they also wrote of non-events. Franco's journalistic supporters did the same. As an aside, George Orwell's book titled HOMAGE TO CATALONIA has a good account of all this.

Soon after the Spanish Civil War was over, World War II erupted in Europe and Asia. Knightley separates fact from fiction regarding journalistic accounts of this war. For example, he undermines one story of the Americans destroying 19 Japanese heavy cruisers in a naval battle when the entire Japanese navy had only 14. He corrects the distortions on the Western Front,and readers have a much better idea of events there than was provided by news accounts at that time.

Probably the worst reporting was done on the Russian Front during World War II. Western journalists, including American reporters, were held to strick Soviet censorship. What was sad is that these journalists willingly cooperated. One journalist reported that Stalin's son or son-in-law was captured by the Germans. At the end of World War II,this journalist was never seen again.

Knightley gives "chapter and verse" of bad journalism during the Cold War. The distortions during the Korean War were appalling. There is no doubt that some of the North Koreans committed atrocities during this war. But what was not reported were the atrocities committed by South Korean troops. One Austrialian had to threaten a South Korean officer if he proceeded to shoot innocent women and children. This went unnoticed for years.

If the reporting were bad during the Korean War, it was just as bad if not worse during the early stages of the Vietnam War. Journalists were encouraged to join the team rather than report actual accounts. However, some of the British and European journalists refused to cooperate. One quoted a speech given by Ky who remarked that his hero was Hitler and what South Vietnam needed was four or five Hitlers. U.S. diplomatic officials and THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote that Ky never made such remarks and did not know the journalist in question. Unfortunately for the government liars and their NEW YORK TIMES sychophants, Ky repeated these remarks almost verbatim via the BBC.

Some have argued that the press helped end the Vietnam War. This was true after the disclosure of the My Lai Massacre. Knightley mentions that this was not considered newsworthy because so many similiar incidents took place. The situation was so bad in Vietnam for U.S. policy makers that they were often at odds with reporters who could not restrain themselves any longer.

Events since 1975, when U.S. forces left Vietnam, have continued to be distorted. Knightely cites events re the First Gulf War and the disasters incubating in Afghanistan and Iraq. The realities of starting unnecessary wars in Western Asia especially when lies and gross fabrications were used to justify the treasure and blood might make Americans alert to political and journalistic lying. The journalists of THE NEW YORK TIMES Washington, D.C. papers have, until recently, been mouth pieces and nothing else for pro-war political liars and cheats. One wonders if the full record will ever be disclosed. If readers carefully examine Knightley's book, they may be able to separate fact from fiction.

excellent history of (biased) reporting.......2006-08-17

"The First Casualty" is excellent in that it lays waste to the current myth of the need for neutrality in war reporting. The book documents the history of war reportage from the Crimean War up until the Terror War of today.

Since the Crimean War of one and a half centuries ago there has been no shortage of persons eager to go and report from wherever it is that people are being shot, bombs are being dropped, and battles are being waged. For much of this period war reporters have not been concerned about their neutrality. In fact, according to Knightley, it could be argued that there has yet to be a war covered in which correspondents were neutral.

In the Crimean War, the conflict that gave birth to the war reporter beast, William Howard Russell performed admirably, though not as an objective recorder of history. He was definitely a writer who glamorized war with his "Charge of the Light Brigade" being one of history's greatest examples of a reporter's patriotism bleeding from between the lines. Furthermore, Russell, just about the world's first war correspondent, was not afraid to criticize his government and his critical reportage was eventually partly responsible for the collapse of his nation's government. Russell was anything but neutral.

The American Civil War in many ways represents the nadir of war reporting. No one can claim that journalists followed any journalistic ethics, let alone neutrality, while covering that conflict. Journalists lied, invented stories, and recreated events due to laziness, greed, and to support personally held views. My personal favorite is the journalist that was bought off for cigars and whiskey. Knightley exposes all of this.

Though war reporting did improve throughout the end of the nineteenth century and into the first two decades of the twentieth, correspondents continued to see war as an us-versus-them struggle and they all continued to romanticize war. Churchill, Gibbons, Hemingway, and Pyle are all prime examples from the book of reporters who did this. My favorite quote from this era is by Herbert Matthews who covered the Spanish War for the New York Times. He argued,
"... I always felt the falseness and hypocrisy of those who claimed to be unbiased and the foolish, if not rank stupidity of editors and readers who demand impartiality...of correspondents writing about the war... A reader has a right to ask for all the facts; he has no right to ask that a journalist or historian agree with him."

In Korea, American journalists were accused of being too patriotic and of not being questioning enough of their country's role in the war. Knightley believes that correspondents must accept some of the blame for the two million civilians that were allegedly killed in that war.

Soon after, in Vietnam, western journalists began covering the war while supporting America's position. As the Vietnam War dragged on journalists' points of view changed as did their coverage of the conflict. For example, the My Lai massacre was uncovered and helped to accelerate America's withdrawal from Vietnam. Today it is not uncommon to hear that the press was at least in part responsible for America's defeat.

I was not as interested in the sections of the book that cover the conflicts that I actually remember. However, one interesting note from this latter part of the book is Knightley's explanation of Bob Simon's experience of being arrested in Iraq. Knightley wrote:
"The Iraqis released Simon and his crew unharmed at the end of the war."

I recently saw a televised interview with Bob Simon and I doubt that he would agree with the above over-simplified statement. According to the interview that I saw Simon was badly beaten while he was in custody. And beaten for weeks or months (I cannot recall exactly) What really makes the above quotation remarkable is the paragraph that precedes the Simon paragraph. The last sentence of that paragraph says the following about a Time photographer being, "...blindfolded, searched, and held for more than 30 hours by a National Guard unit." Perhaps I am seeing something that is not there, but to me the two paragraphs, one right after the other, give a moral equivalency to the two events that should not exist.

The book at around 600 pages is close to becoming not a book to read but a book to refer to. That is fine in my opinion and I sincerely hope that Knightley continues to update it as wars continue to pop up around the globe.

Good reading,

Andrew Greene
Jakarta, Indonesia

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......2005-04-25

This is an excellent account of the history of war journalism. What is most interesting is that, as the title suggests, the author is able to demonstrate that many of the issues concerning this topic have remained the same since the Crimean War.

The accounts of the coverage of specific conflicts is very informative. I just hope that this book is constantly updated with an account of each new conflict as it happens. I would love to know what Knightly has to say about the post 9/11 wars.

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Alternate political characters enhance rather than overwhelm WW1 crime story

The First Casualty
Ben Elton
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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From Ben Elton, author of the hugely successful Past Mortem, a gut-wrenching historical drama which forces us to handle the truth.

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, is charged with his murder.

Douglas Konig is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction in the case. Forced to conduct his investigations amid the hell of the third Battle of Ypres, Konig soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.

Ben Elton’s tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama that explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?

As the gap between legally sanctioned and illegal murder becomes ever more blurred, Konig quickly learns that the first casualty of war is Truth.

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Alternate political characters enhance rather than overwhelm WW1 crime story.......2007-03-06

This book deserves closer analysis than my hazy recollections of a few months ago, but life being what it is this will have to do.

Elton creates perhaps the least sympathetic character possible as his war hero: a conscientious objector. I don't know that this book could have even been published closer to the time of its WW1 setting (well, I'm sure it couldn't have given some of the sexual content taken for granted less than a century on), but community attitudes have altered pretty radically since then. That being said, Elton's point is well made that while you'd never know it by reading a thousand other fictional books in this setting, there were conscientious objectors in the Great War, not to mention communists, homosexuals, Irish nationalists and feminists. Many stories set in wars are well researched, but it is refreshing to have a wider, more representative population. While he does have something of a barrow to push, Elton gives a deal more respect and time to conventional stiff-upper-lip conservatives in this book than more traditional war story writers give to his non-mainstream protagonists. Perhaps it would have been better if Elton had have allowed us an equally articulate pro-war character, the presentation of Kingsley's case is so strong as to border on a straw man attack, but, granted, we have been gorged with the pro-war argument from so much media for so long, in the scheme of things this is hardly going to tip the balance. In a similar spirit I'll grant him some clunky expository dialogue as Tommies summarise contrasting views on the reasons for the war: this conversation feels retrofitted, but it's interesting to even hear some alternative perspectives.

Elton's always had wit, but he's managed to surprise me on occasion by the quality of his writing (such as `Popcorn'). It's not merely a comedian exploring an alternative source of revenue; he can actually stand up creditably against many dedicated novelists. `The First Casualty' has a workable crime plot, historically viable settings, engaging characters and some thought provoking themes. While Elton started, for example, like David Baddiel, I don't know that the latter will similarly be able to reach a point where he can write a whole book without a few chapters of observational comedy (mostly about penises) to get us through. It's actually a testament to Elton's craft that I can write such a positive review about an author who probably passionately holds some views that I'd disagree with. Moreover I suspect we could still have a conversation.

Thus while it teeters on the edge now and then, the book doesn't descend into a mere propaganda pamphlet. Elton includes some interesting opinion, but never at the cost of writing a cohesive, engaging story. Kingsley's conscientious objection, for example, is not merely a veiled political statement from the author: it's a vital aspect of this character's at times irritatingly uncompromising character, and crucial to the appealing (if pretty implausible) plot device of dropping the most unlikely investigator, and investigation, into the Western front trenches. The book opens very well, taking us straight to a gripping time, place and person. The initial technique of cutting to different characters and locations is effective (as opposed to transparent and/or irritating as in some other books). The characters aren't throwaways, there are capable action and investigation scenes along the way, and the resolution is satisfying.

The book isn't flawless. While Elton is so careful about his historical settings, it does become absurd that just about every experienced veteran Kingsley finds himself on the battlefield with gets himself killed, generally at the instant they are in talking to him. I'm not saying death scenes are implausible on a battlefield, but there is something of the Rambo school of war where the hero stands untouched in a hail of bullets while all about him fall. I also get frustrated at how frequently authors blithely kill off characters described as experts: suddenly in one week three veterans of a dangerous profession all are killed nearby the inexplicably surviving rookie: it pushes the effect too hard and foregrounds the deliberate manipulation of the author (it's nicer when you don't realise). Another irritation is some incongruous immaturity. In making the nurse character something more than an extra Elton must have thrown around some options: could I make her an orphan? A spiritualist like Conan-Doyle? Perhaps a politician's daughter? Or a devout missionary who'd returned from China? Wait, hang on, I've got it... she could be ... a nymphomaniac. Gee, thanks Ben: is there some legal stipulation that all British comedians have to make some sort of homage to Benny Hill in each work? Even a powerful one about war? He could argue that this is just another of his balancing characters, a foil for all the typical `good girls' of the representations of the era, but I don't think he'd get away with it. This is gratuitous. It's disappointing, and hardly the sort of thing to reassure his female readers that he's not into perpetuating degrading male stereotypes of women (What? I'm suggesting that a nymphomaniac nurse is a degrading stereotype?! Why, the very idea etc.).

These weaknesses, however, are aberrations: my praises for this book are far greater than my objections. There is a lovely mix of the sweet conventions of good storytelling alongside sustaining historical and political meat. Elton does a few things very well here, any one of which would probably have been enough to make a decent read.

Jane's Mass Casualty Handbooks - Pre Hospital: Pre-Hospital : Emergency Preparedness and Response (Janes)

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Jane's Mass Casualty Handbooks - Pre Hospital: Pre-Hospital : Emergency Preparedness and Response (Janes)
Craig Deatley , Susan, M.D. Allan , William, M.D. Hauda , Paul Dehaven , and Ann Stangby
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Jane's Mass Casualty Handbook: Pre-hospital, together with the Hospital edition, provides detailed planning, response and recovery information for paramedics, firefighters, police officers, emergency managers and other responders.

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"The most comprehensive j'accuse of journalism as propaganda in the English language... Ought to be read by every young reporter and by those who retain pride in our craft of truth-telling, not matter how unpopular or unpalatable the truth." -- John Pilger, from the Preface to the new edition

"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917, and in his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in Times [London], to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, The First Casualty tells a fascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Since Vietnam, Knightley finds, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, and in new chapters on the Falklands, the Gulf War, and the former Yugoslavia, he concludes that the war correspondent's role as a seeker of truth is now in jeopardy.

From reviews of the first edition:

"[This book] may make us all a little more free to talk about and find the truth." -- Garry Wills, New York Times Book Review

"Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining." -- New Yorker

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Review of the First Casualty, by Nathan Reid.......2003-06-16

The First Casualty by Phillip Knightly looks at the history of War Correspondents, and analyzes their attempts to accurately report what actually happens on the front line. It covers a broad period of time, from the mid 1800's to the 1970's, in which the author analyzes just about every major war in the time span.

One of the most interesting aspects of the book is that it shows the inability of the majority of the correspondents to report accurately on the wars that have taken place throughout history. For various reasons, which are all explained in the book, most of what the average person read about a particular war during the time that it was going on, turned out to be some sort of propaganda or just completely false.

Phillip Knightly examines the role that technology has played in changing the role of the war correspondent. He looks at some of the most famous correspondents and explains what they did to get to the top. He also shows what the real priorities were for some of the correspondents and their editors.

This book also gives a very interesting perspective on many of the most famous wars, and has a lot of inside information that isn't available in your average textbook. This book will make anybody think twice about what they read in the paper, and I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in finding out the real uncensored truth about history.

Buy this book.......2003-06-15

If you are into the world of journalism in even the smallest capacity, this book is for you. If you are interested in how journalists cover major world events like wars, this book should already be on your bookshelf.

Knightley keeps a thorough record of how the wartime correspondent got its first start and doesn't let up through all of the major English and American wars including the Gulf War. Knightley himself is an accomplished journalist in his own right, but that doesn't stop him from taking a critical look at the industry - how it has succeeded but more interestingly where it has failed and continues to fail.

As a high school journalism teacher, this book will become required reading to understand how this type of reporting came about. It will help the students and you take a more critical look at how journalists are covering the war.

The Best Book on the History of Military-Media Relations.......2002-10-07

As a military officer who works routinely with the media, this book is my number-one choice for anybody who wants to understand how the relationship between media and the military became what it is today. This book simply tells a great story. Whether your interest is in media, the military or history, I think you'll have a hard time putting it down. And while I don't subscribe to Mr. Knighley's conclusion that the military scored a final victory in managing the media during Kosovo in 1999, the relationship is much more complex than most people realize and will continue to develop during the conflicts that are being played out today and in the future. The bottom line is that if you're interested enough in this subject to have gotten to the end of this review, you ought to buy the book. You won't regret it.

Truth is the first casualty;: The Gulf of Tonkin affair: illusion and reality,

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Truth is the first casualty;: The Gulf of Tonkin affair: illusion and reality,
Joseph C Goulden
Manufacturer: Rand McNally
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Goulden, Joseph C.
Main Title: Truth is the first casualty; the Gulf of Tonkin affair: illusion and reality, by Joseph C. Goulden.
Published/Created: Chicago, Rand McNally [1969]
Description: 285 p. maps. 24 cm.
Notes: "A James B. Alder, inc. book."
Bibliography: p. 265-269.

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