During America's Civil War, accounts of the Battle of Bull Run reached New York within 24 hours. During the Gulf War, reports took three or four days - sometimes two weeks - just to get from the front lines to the nearby press headquarters at the Dhahran International Hotel. From an insider's perspective, Fialka tells why the Marines had a better plan than the Army for getting news back from the front - and how even good plans go awry in the fog of war. He describes the hotel warriors, journalists who experienced the war ...
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During America's Civil War, accounts of the Battle of Bull Run reached New York within 24 hours. During the Gulf War, reports took three or four days - sometimes two weeks - just to get from the front lines to the nearby press headquarters at the Dhahran International Hotel. From an insider's perspective, Fialka tells why the Marines had a better plan than the Army for getting news back from the front - and how even good plans go awry in the fog of war. He describes the hotel warriors, journalists who experienced the war mainly through televized briefings, pool reports, and CNN.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Good. 23 cm, 78, wraps, acid-free paper, illus., maps, chronology, index, covers somewhat worn, soiled, and sticker residue. Prepared under the auspices of the Media Studies Project, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Foreword by Peter Braestrup. Account of what it was like reporting and living in the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War.
