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Carruthers, Susan L. The Media at War: Communication and Conflict in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 321 pp. $21.95.
The Media at War is the third book on this topic by Susan L. Carruthers, a senior lecturer on international politics at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. It is her broadest in temporal (1914-1999) and international scope (the United States is added to her previous research on Britain).
The book examines the various roles of Anglo-American media during "total wars" (World Wars One and Two), "limited wars" (Vietnam, Falklands/Malvinas, and the Gulf War), "terrorism" (particularly Northern Ireland), and "other people's wars" (Kurdistan, former Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Rwanda).
In order to survey eighty-five years of media-government relations in 280 pages of text (with a twenty-- four-page bibliography), Carruthers is selective. She...