
How to Win an Information War
The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler: BBC R4 Book of the Week
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How to Win an Information War
The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler: BBC R4 Book of the Week
About this book
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
'Lively and elegant.'
THE
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'History at its most urgent.' BEN JUDAH
'An essential read.'
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Summer 1941, Hitler and his allies rule Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. But inside Germany, there is a notable voice of dissent, Der Chef, whose radio broadcasts skilfully question Nazi doctrine. What listeners don't know is that Der Chef is a fiction, a character created by the British propagandist Sefton Delmer.
As Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's fascinating lost story, he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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Table of contents
- LandingPage
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface: The Real Lives of Sefton Delmer
- Chapter 1: Propaganda Is the Remedy for Loneliness
- Chapter 2: The Nazi Circus
- Chapter 3: Not Reliable
- Chapter 4: All Doubts Fall Away
- Chapter 5: Into the Ridiculous
- Chapter 6: That Beastly Pornographic Organisation
- Chapter 7: Strength Through Fear
- Chapter 8: D-Day and the Death Drive
- Chapter 9: Valkyrie
- Chapter 10: How Dead Is Hitler?
- Chapter 11: How to Win an Information War
- Chapter 12: Ordinary Ordinary
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright