Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Prologue: ‘Power and Persuasion’: Propaganda into the......Page 18
Part One The First World War and inter-war period......Page 30
Introduction......Page 32
1 Strategy and propaganda: Lord Kitchener, the retreat from Mons and the Amiens Dispatch, August–September 1914......Page 38
2 ‘Thank God for the French Army’: Churchill on the French Army between the two world wars......Page 56
3 Art under dictatorship: Propaganda, plunder and provenance......Page 74
Part Two The Second World War......Page 108
Introduction......Page 110
4 ‘False hopes and airy visions’? Dylan Thomas and British film propaganda in the Second World War......Page 116
5 Hitchcock as propagandist......Page 132
6 The films we forgot to remember: The other side of Second World War propaganda......Page 154
7 The Special Operations Executive and covert propaganda during the Greco-Italian War, 1940–1......Page 166
8 The interplay between diplomacy and propaganda: The Foreign Office and the discovery of the Katyn massacre, 1943......Page 180
Part Three Postwar and Cold War......Page 200
Introduction......Page 202
9 A wartime medical experiment as propaganda: The malaria case......Page 208
10 The Undefeated: Propaganda, rehabilitation and post-war Britain......Page 226
11 The British Council behind the Iron Curtain: Cultural propaganda in early Cold War Poland......Page 246
12 From Civil War to Cold War: The Model Worker in Chinese film propaganda......Page 270
13 Counter-propaganda: Cases from US public diplomacy and beyond......Page 286
14 ‘Men of Action’: Printed propaganda in the recruitment of the regular British armed forces, 1960–85......Page 302
15 Love, Hate and Propaganda: Reflections on the making of a documentary series......Page 320
Epilogue: ‘We are all propagandists now’: Propaganda in the twenty-first century......Page 328
Select Bibliography......Page 342
Index......Page 358