This book takes a fresh look at the history of war reporting to understand how new technology, new ways of waging war and new media conditions are changing the role and work of today's war correspondent.

Kevin Williams is Emeritus Professor of Media and Communication History at the University of Swansea.

Introduction: a new history of war reporting

1. The war correspondent: the changing identity of a sub-genre of journalism

2. The Crimean War (1854-5): the origins of a specialism

3. The 'golden age of war reporting' (1856-1903): in the service of empire and nation

4. The Great Wars (1905-1919): setting the terms of trade of war reporting

5. Wars between the world wars (1919-1939): subjective journalism and the 'I' generation

6. The Great Patriotic War (1939-45): correspondents on team?

7. The Korean War (1951-54) and Vietnam (1963-73): the power of pictures?

8. The Gulf Wars (1991-2003): selling war

9. War in the Balkans (1991-9): moral witnessing and the journalism of attachment

10. Post-9/11 conflicts (2010-present): war reporting without war reporters