Reporting the Second World War
eBook - ePub

Reporting the Second World War

The Press and the People 1939-1945

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reporting the Second World War

The Press and the People 1939-1945

About this book

The decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily conforming to the wishes of the wartime coalition. Tim Luckhurst challenges this through an analysis of illuminating and largely forgotten controversies which underscore the function the press held as guardians of democracy and propagators of dissenting opinion in British politics and society - from the overseas evacuation of children to the Allies' carpet bombing of German cities. Reporting the Second World War is a timely and important intervention that duly recognises the place of national, regional and specialist titles in speaking truth to power in a democracy at war.

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Information

Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350149489
eBook ISBN
9781350149502
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 A Brief History of Newspapers
  9. 2 Barons, Abdication and Appeasement
  10. 3 The Phoney War
  11. 4 Churchill, Norway and Dunkirk
  12. 5 Class Unity and the Myth of the Blitz
  13. 6 The Battle of Britain
  14. 7 Air Raid Shelters, Fairness and a New Home Secretary
  15. 8 Morale, Intimidation and Censorship
  16. 9 Britain and Russia: ‘One Touch of Hitler Makes the Whole World Kin’
  17. 10 The Beveridge Report: Banishing Want from Cradle to Grave
  18. 11 Peculiar Problems: Reporting the Americans in Britain
  19. 12 ‘Bomb Back and Bomb Hard’: Allied Bombing of Germany
  20. 13 Concentration Camps
  21. 14 VE Day, General Election and Atomic Bombs
  22. Conclusion
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Copyright