The Propaganda Front
The Propaganda Front

Author: Anna Jozefacka

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9780878467631

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The first comprehensive exploration of postcards used as propaganda on all sides of the major military and political conflicts of the twentieth century, including World Wars I and II A Russian Socialist worker raises the red flag. Adoring crowds greet Hitler and Mussolini. Uncle Sam orders Americans to enlist. These images and many more circulated by the millions on postcards intended to change minds and inspire actions around the time of the two World Wars. Whether produced by government propaganda bureaus, opportunistic publishers, aid organizations, or resistance movements, postcards conveyed their messages with striking graphics, pithy slogans, and biting caricatures - and in a uniquely personal format. The more than 350 cards reproduced in full colour in this book advocate for political causes and celebrate war efforts on all sides of the major conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century. The accompanying text shows how a ubiquitous form of communication served increasingly sophisticated campaigns in an age of propaganda, and highlights the postcards collected here as both priceless historical documents and masterworks of graphic design.

How Hitler Prepared
How Hitler Prepared

Author: Otto D. Tolischus

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 9781258976248

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This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.

Second Front
Second Front

Author: John R. MacArthur

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2004-05-26

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780520242319

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John R. MacArthur -- who is the publisher of Harper's Magazine -- examines the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the U.S. media during the 1991 gulf war. With a new preface.

Mobilizing the Home Front
Mobilizing the Home Front

Author: James J. Kimble

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2006-04-04

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781585444854

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Kimble examines the U.S. Treasury’s eight war bond drives that raised over $185 billion—the largest single domestic propaganda campaign known to that time. The campaign enlisted such figures as Judy Garland, Norman Rockwell, Irving Berlin, and Donald Duck to cultivate national morale and convince Americans to buy war bonds.

For Home and Country
For Home and Country

Author: Celia M. Kingsbury

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0803228325

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For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food agencies targeted women in their homes, especially their kitchens, pressuring them to change their domestic habits. Children were also taught to fear the enemy and support the war through propaganda in the form of toys, games, and books. And when women and children were not the recipients of propaganda, they were often used in propaganda to target men. By examining a diverse collection of literary texts, songs, posters, and toys, Celia Malone Kingsbury reveals how these pervasive materials were used to fight the war's cultural battle.

Wearing Propaganda
Wearing Propaganda

Author: John W. Dower

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780300109252

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An astonishing survey of the use of fashion and textiles as powerful propaganda tools in the Second World War era

The Radio Front
The Radio Front

Author: Ron Bateman

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1803990805

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Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public radio and the service became vital in keeping an anxious public informed, upbeat and entertained behind the curtains of millions of blacked-out homes. The Radio Front examines just how the BBC reinvented itself and delivered its carefully controlled propaganda to listeners in the UK and throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. It also reveals the BBC's often-strained relationships with the government, military and public as the organisation sought to influence opinion and safeguard public morale without damaging its growing reputation for objectivity and veracity. Using original source material, historian and author Ron Bateman tracks the BBC's growth during the Second World War from its unorganised and humble beginnings to the development of a huge overseas and European operation, and also evaluates the importance of iconic broadcasts from the likes of J.B. Priestley, Vera Lynn and Tommy Handley.