The Great War of Words : British, American and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
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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World War, 1914-1918 -- Propaganda. World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war. Propaganda, British. Propaganda, American. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Propaganda, Canadian.