RE: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaignmedal

[Tim Atherton <timatherton@theedge.ca>]

> As to WWI, reporting and photography were heavily censored; had they not
> been, and had folks at home been aware of the utterly senseless,
> unnecessary slaughter of that particular war, it is likely there would
> have been major resistance to the war in the Allied nations.

What's interesting about WWI is that the work of the official "War
Artists" - especially British & Canadian, while generally not seen until
somewhat later, probably gave (and still gives) a much more accurate account
of what was happening and the reality of the situation "in the trenches"

tim

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