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Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 24 May 2023 03:23:18
Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945

Tim Luckhurst, "Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945"
English | ISBN: 1350149497 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 24 MB

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.

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