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