Much of the lure of the war dispatch permeates this book, the first full-length history of modern war news. Professor Mathews traces the development of war news coverage for the last 200 years, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars through World War II.

Includes index and bibliographic references.

1. War news – 2. War news without war correspondents – 3. Napoleon's military bulletins – 4. The genesis of newspaper war correspondence – 5. The mid-century revolution – 6. American bohemians – 7. The wars of Italian and German unification – 8. Heralds of the imperialistic wars – 9. Cosmopolitanism and sensationalism – 10. World War I – 11. World War II – 12. Censorship and control – 13. Official war news – 14. The profession of war correspondence – 15. The literature of war correspondence – notes -- index.