Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Australia A Biography of a Nation by Phillip Knightley KNIGHTLEY, Phillip. Born January 23, 1929, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; son of Phillip James (an artist) and Alice (Iggleden) Knightley; married Eva Hajek, October 30, 1954 (marriage ended); married Yvonne Fernandes, July 13, 1964; children: (second marriage) Aliya, Kim, Marisa. Politics: Socialist. Religion: Atheist. ADDRESSES: Home —4 Northumberland Pl., London W2 5BS, England. Agent —Ursula R. Winant, 14 Clifford's Inn, London EC4A 1DA, England. CAREER: Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Australia, copyboy, 1945-46; Northern Star, Lismore, Australia, cadet reporter, 1946-47; Oceania Daily News, Suva, Fiji, copra trader and reporter, 1947-48; Melbourne Herald, Sydney, Australia, reporter, 1948-50; Daily Mirror, Sydney, Australia, reporter, 1950-54; Imprint, Bombay, India, editor, 1960-62; Sunday Times, London, England, feature writer, 1963-85. Former owner of Old Vienna (restaurant), Chelsea, London, England. MEMBER: Queens Club and Hurlingham Club (both London, England). WRITINGS: (With Bruce Page and David Leitch) Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, Deutsch (London, England), 1968, published as The Philby Conspiracy, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1968. (With Hugh Atkinson) The Games, Simon and Schuster (New York, NY), 1968. The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, Nelson (London, England), 1969, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY), 1970. (With Harold Hobson and Leonard Russell) The Pearl of Days: An Intimate Memoir of the Sunday Times, 1822-1972, Hamilton (London, England), 1972. The First Casualty, from the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1975, third updated edition published as The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Iraq, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2004. (With Stephen Fay) The Death of Venice, Praeger (New York, NY), 1976. The Vestey Affair, Macdonald (London, England), 1981, revised and updated as The Rise and Fall of the House of Vestey: The True Story of How Britain's Richest Family Beat the Taxman and Came to Grief, Warner Books (London, England), 1994. The Second Oldest Profession: The Spy as Bureaucrat, Patriot, Fantasist, and Whore, A. Deutsch (London, England), 1986, published as The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century, Norton (New York, NY), 1987. (With Caroline Kennedy) An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1987. Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy, A. Deutsch (London, England), 1988, published as The Master Spy: The Story of Kim Philby, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989. (Editor and author of introduction) Genrikh Aviezerovich Borovik, The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994. A Hack's Progress, J. Cape (London, England), 1997. Australia: A Biography of a Nation, J. Cape (London, England), 2000. The Eye of War: Words and Photographs from the Front Line, introduction by John Keegan, Smithsonian Books (Washington, DC), 2003. SIDELIGHTS: A veteran foreign correspondent and investigative journalist, Phillip Knightley has written a number of books focusing on such topics as espionage, war, and the role of a war correspondent and journalist. One of Knightley's first books, 1975's The First Casualty, from the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, is considered a journalism classic by many. Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, James Boylan called the book "Knightley's durable and unblinking chronicle of the role of correspondents in covering, analyzing, and sometimes promoting wars." More recent editions of the book include chapters dealing with Great Britain's Falkland Islands conflict, the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s, and NATO's Kosovo bombing campaign later in that decade. Knightley also discusses the increasingly stringent policies set by governments such as the United States and Great Britain to control correspondents and sometimes coerce them into telling the side of the story the governments want their citizens to hear. In an interview on the Socialist Worker Party in Ireland Web site, Knightley explained his belief that truth is the first casualty in war. He stressed the importance of propaganda to a government's effort in conducting war, noting, "People must try and probe behind the rhetoric and not allow themselves to be fooled by politicians, whatever political party they might be." A native of Australia, Knightley is also the author of Australia: A Biography of a Nation. Knightley set out to write this book partially to answer the question of why Americans and Australians are so different. Both countries began as English-speaking, British colonies that battled to conquer new frontiers and, in the process, nearly wiped out the indigenous inhabitants of their respective countries. According to Knightley, one of the primary difference between Americans and Australians is the American adherence to a winner-take-all attitude that emphasizes the philosophy of the individual, while Australians have a stronger belief in mutual help and social obligation. "Knightley is at his best when he analyses the difficult events that forged the nation [Australia] and its particular spirit of comradeship," wrote an Economist contributor, calling Australia "a fine book with much offer." Commenting on Knightley's chronicle of Australia in the Library Journal, Joseph L. Carlson called the book "a searing look at a nation struggling to come to grips with its history" and noted that "Knightly is forthright in his commentary and presents his information in a manner that will please historians and casual readers alike." BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES: PERIODICALS. Columbia Journalism Review, September-October, 2002, James Boylan, review of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo, p. 69. Economist, September 9, 2000, review of Australia: A Biography of a Nation, p. 108. Library Journal, September 15, 2001, Joseph L. Carlson, review of Australia: A Biography of a Nation, p. 97. ONLINE. eJournalism Web site, http://www.ejournalism.au.com/ (December 15, 2004), "Do It Yourself Investigative Journalism." Socialist Worker Party in Ireland Web site, http://www.swp.ie/ (December 15, 2004), "Truth Is the First Casualty" (interview). OTHER. The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime (documentary film), Milestone Film & Video, 1994.* Phillip Knightley. Phillip Knightley (born 23 January 1929 in Sydney) is an Australian journalist, critic, and non-fiction author. He is currently a visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, England, and a media commentator on the intelligence services and propaganda. Contents. Biography. He began his career in 1946 as a copyboy with the Sydney Daily Telegraph . Two years as a cadet reporter with The Northern Star (Lismore) followed. He then temporarily left journalism to become a copra trader in Fiji before joining the Oceania Daily News (Suva), which prided itself as being the "First Paper Published in the World Today" because of Suva's proximity to the International Dateline. Knightley returned to Australia and worked for The Herald in Melbourne. He returned to Sydney in 1952 joining the city's Daily Mirror and covered Elizabeth II's visit to Australia in 1953/54. He left for London in November 1954 as foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror , and then went to India as managing editor of the Bombay (Mumbai) literary magazine, Imprint . Migrating to the UK in 1965, he became a special correspondent for the London Sunday Times , remaining there until 1985. During this time he was a member of the 'Insight' investigative team. Since leaving The Sunday Times , he has contributed literary criticism to the Mail on Sunday (London), The Independent (London), The Australian 's Review of Books, The Age (Melbourne), and the New York Review of Books . Knightley's main professional interests have been war reporting, propaganda, and espionage. In more than 30 years of writing about espionage, he has met most of the spy chiefs of all the major intelligence services in the world, and interviewed numerous officers and agents from all sides during the Cold War and since. In December 2010, he received media coverage for acting as a bail sureties provider for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. [1] Having backed Assange by pledging bail in December 2010, Knightley lost the money in June 2012 when a judge ordered it to be forfeited, as Assange had sought to escape the jurisdiction of the English courts by entering the embassy of Ecuador. [2] In 1997, Knightley was a judge for Canada's Lionel Gelber Prize, which honours the world's best book on international relations. He is the European representative on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and patron of the C.W. Bean Foundation in Canberra. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2005, for "services to journalism and as an author". Knightley is married with two daughters called Aliya and Marisa, a son called Kim and two granddaughters. He lives between London, Sydney and Goa in India. Australia : A Biography of a Nation. Unlike a tourist guide to the many beautiful sites in Australia, this book offers the perspective of an insider looking in, as it chronicles the character of the nation. Knightley (The First Casualty . Читать весь отзыв. Review: Australia: A Biography of a Nation. An excellent, if non-academic, overview of Australian history and identity since the nineteenth century, with an excellent focus on Aboriginal affairs, and on the evolution of the country's relationship with the United Kingdom. Good for anyone who likes popular history. Читать весь отзыв. Australia : A Biography of a Nation. Unlike a tourist guide to the many beautiful sites in Australia, this book offers the perspective of an insider looking in, as it chronicles the character of the nation. Knightley (The First Casualty . Читать весь отзыв. Review: Australia: A Biography of a Nation. An excellent, if non-academic, overview of Australian history and identity since the nineteenth century, with an excellent focus on Aboriginal affairs, and on the evolution of the country's relationship with the United Kingdom. Good for anyone who likes popular history. Читать весь отзыв. Earn Qantas Points on eligible Booktopia orders* Simply link your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership number to your Booktopia account and earn points on eligible orders. Either by signing into your account or linking your membership details before your order is placed. Shop thousands of Books, Audio Books, DVDs, Calendars, Diaries and Stationery, then proceed to checkout. Earn 1 Qantas Point per $1 spent. Your points will be added to your account once your order is shipped. Click on the cover image above to read some pages of this book! Australia celebrates one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightley describes Australia's journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near-civil war, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the immigration that followed it, and the slow but steady decline in the relationship with Britain, the 'Mother Country', as Australia forged its own unique identity. About the Author. Phillip Knightley is the author of ten non-fiction books. He is best known for The Second Oldest Profession and The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker . He has met nearly every spy chief on both sides in the spy Cold War and spent one week with the British traitor Kim Philby in Moscow in 1988 debriefing him just before he died. For twenty years he was a special correspondent of The Sunday Times and a member of the Insight Team. He is now representative in Europe for the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and spends most of him time writing books and articles for publications around the world. Industry Reviews. "Catches the feel of Australia brilliantly. His 350 pages tell you more of Australia's public history and secret life than any academic study ever could. Wonderful." - The Times. "Knightley deals skilfully and generously with all the great issues his country has faced." - Independent. "Gripping and comprehensive." - Irish Times. "A fine book. fascinating." - Economist. 1. A New Day Down Under - 1 2. Beginnings - 30 3. Federation - 44 4. The War Years: Gallipoli - 61 5. The War Years: France - 75 6. The Enemy Within - 91 7. Black Australia - 107 8. White Australia - 123 9. The Depression Years - 132 10. Bodyline - 152 11. The War Years: A Falling Out - 169 12. The War Years: Uncle Sam - 188 13. The War Years: The Boys Who Saved Australia - 203 14. The New Settlers - 216 15. The Menzies Era - 230 16. Reds - 239 17. The Whitlam Era - 256 18. The Crown Triumphs - 269 19. Coming Out - 283 20. Estrangement - 298 21. The Doors Open - 307 22. Backlash - 321 23. The Coming of Age - 332. Acknowledgements - 355 Select Bibliography - 357 Index - 361. ISBN: 9780099772910 ISBN-10: 0099772914 Audience: General Format: Paperback Language: English Number Of Pages: 384 Published: 6th September 2001 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 Weight (kg): 0.27 Edition Number: 1.