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The price of truth : the journalist who defied military censors to report the fall of Nazi Germany / Richard Fine.

Author: Fine, Richard, author.

ImprintIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2023.

Descriptionxiv, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction: The War's Messiest Media Story -- Reporting the War in Europe -- The Military's Approach to the Press -- Reims -- "Unmention Use Phone" -- At the Hotel Scribe -- The Debate -- The Aftermath -- Media-Military Relations in the Good War.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index.

Note:"This book examines the circumstances of AP journalist Edward Kennedy's bypassing military censorship to break the news of the German surrender he had just witnessed on May 7, 1945, and assesses the controversy that followed."-- Provided by publisher.



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Fine, Richard, author.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage.
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