Drawing on examples from the twentieth-century's "total" and "limited wars," "The Media at War" provides a uniquely comprehensive assessment of the role of the media before, during and after wars. The new edition has been updated to take account of the "war on terror" and the influence of new forms [...]

This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a 'leap for freedom' from the Soviet Consulate [...]