Phillip Knightley established himself as an investigative journalist with a profound interest in war reporting, propaganda, and espionage. During his two-decade tenure with The Sunday Times, he became a pivotal member of its Insight team, earning the prestigious Journalist of the Year award twice. His extensive knowledge of the international intelligence community, cultivated through direct engagement with global intelligence chiefs, provides a unique lens through which he explores complex operations and motivations. Knightley's work consistently delves into the intricacies of uncovering and disseminating truth.
A story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Now brought up to date with new material on the war in Afghanistan. Australian author.
The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq
Focusing on the critical themes of press freedom and journalistic ethics, this updated edition explores the challenges faced by journalists in the context of modern warfare. It delves into the responsibilities of the media and the impact of conflict on reporting, making it essential reading for those interested in the intersection of journalism and military actions.
The spy is as old as history but spy services are quite new. Britain founded the first, Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, in dubious circumstances in 1909. Others followed until no country considered itself a nation unless it had a corps of spies. The biggest and most expensive is America's Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, formed as recently as 1947. The CIA's principle enemy was the Soviet Union's KGB, and the clash of these two giants has been the thrilling stuff of history, novels, films and plays. In assessing the real role of the spy, Phillip Knightley brilliantly takes all the real characters of the spies themselves - Mata Hari, Sidney Reilly, Richard Sorge, Kim Philby, George Blake, James Jesus Angleton, Ruth Kuczinsky, the Rosenbergs - and answers the crucial question. Did they make any difference to the course of history? Or was spying the biggest confidence trick of our time?
