Editor: Anthony Rhodes
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Publication: 1976, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 320
Size: 230 x 310
Text: English
Design: Seymour Chwast
ISBN: 9780207957192
(Preface) 'Professionals have called it the fourth front of warfare, comparing its strategic importance to military campaigns, diplomatic negotiations, and economic sanctions. No one has claimed that the tide of conflict has been turned solely by leaflets, radio broadcasts, posters, or psychological ploys, but there is little doubt that propaganda has been a powerful weapon in the arsenal of war.
During World War IL, propagandists exhorted citizens at home to produce more, keep their lips sealed, and hate the enemy; at the front they sought to strengthen the morale of their own troops and weaken the enemy's will to fight.
Each major belligerent had its propaganda strategy. The Nazis idealized the Aryan superman and blamed Jews, bankers, and Bolsheviks for the world's ills. Britain, soft-pedaling "hate the enemy" themes, bolstered her people's quiet determination to defeat the Axis. American propagandists beat the drum for democratic values and created grim stereotypes of the enemy. The Soviets invoked the nationalist image of Mother Russia as the fecund source of their power to repel the invaders.
This book presents, for the first time, a visual compendium of all forms of propaganda used by the Allied and Axis powers in World War II and in the period that led to its outbreak...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing with occasional small tare to jacket cover/edges.
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