Phillip Knightley - Publications

Publications

• The First Casualty on war and propaganda (in the United States, a Book of the Month Club main choice)
• The Second Oldest Profession, 1986, on espionage (in the United States, a History Club alternative choice)
• Philby, KGB Master Spy, his biography of Kim Philby; Knightley was the only Western journalist to interview the famous KGB spy in Moscow in 1988
• An Affair of State, about the 1963 John Profumo scandal in Britain, publication of which was banned in the United Kingdom
• The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia (with Colin Simpson)
• The Pearl of Days, the history of the Sunday Times
• Suffer the Children, about the Thalidomide tragedy
• The Death of Venice, on attempts to save Venice from permanent flooding
• The Rise and Fall of the House of Vestey, on the business empire established by Sir William (later Baron) Vestey in 1897;
• A Hack’s Progress, his autobiography
• Australia: A Biography of a Nation