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The Great War of Words : British, American and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1987Copyright date: ©1987Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (218 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774856935
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Great War of WordsDDC classification:
  • 823.91209358
LOC classification:
  • D639.P6 -- B85 1987eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Signs and Portents of War -- 2. The Reasons Why: Setting Up the Propaganda Machine -- 3. The Pamphlet War -- 4. Masterman's Motley Army-and Two Outsiders -- 5. Propaganda in America -- 6. Propaganda from America -- 7. Over There: Drawing the Paper Curtain -- 8. Fiction as Propaganda: War Stories -- 9. Home Fires Burning Low: Fiction as an Escape from Propaganda -- 10. New Brooms of Propaganda -- 11. Lost Opportunities -- 12. Disillusionment and Reconstruction: Writers Reflect on the War -- Epilogue: Consequences -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The hitherto unknown story of the secret collaboration between the government and leading writers of the early 1900s - including H.G. Wells, John Buchan and John Galsworthy - to create a propaganda machine against the invading Huns.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Signs and Portents of War -- 2. The Reasons Why: Setting Up the Propaganda Machine -- 3. The Pamphlet War -- 4. Masterman's Motley Army-and Two Outsiders -- 5. Propaganda in America -- 6. Propaganda from America -- 7. Over There: Drawing the Paper Curtain -- 8. Fiction as Propaganda: War Stories -- 9. Home Fires Burning Low: Fiction as an Escape from Propaganda -- 10. New Brooms of Propaganda -- 11. Lost Opportunities -- 12. Disillusionment and Reconstruction: Writers Reflect on the War -- Epilogue: Consequences -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The hitherto unknown story of the secret collaboration between the government and leading writers of the early 1900s - including H.G. Wells, John Buchan and John Galsworthy - to create a propaganda machine against the invading Huns.

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