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Black Propaganda in the Second World War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Black Propaganda in the Second World War

Black propaganda appears over a fake signature, for example of a fictitious resistance organisation. In this book, the author examines the 'black arts' of Britain, Poland and the Nazis during the Second World War. By 1939, Josef Goebbels had won the struggle for control of the propaganda process in Nazi Germany. In contrast, it took the arrival of Sefton Delmer in 1941 for anyone in Britain to understand how to use propaganda to subvert the German war effort. Through the shadowy Political Warfare Executive, the 'black' radio stations Delmer created lured German listeners with jazz and pornography (both banned), mixed with subversive rumours. Millions of 'black' leaflets - perfect forgeries o...

A Genius for Deception
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

A Genius for Deception

In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap. In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War...

Czarna propaganda
  • Language: pl
  • Pages: 356

Czarna propaganda

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Theory of War and Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

The Theory of War and Peace

This book explores the ontology of war and peace. Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and military history, it defines axiomatics of the theory of war and peace; formulates its consequences; tests the theory on the geophilosophy of Europe; and offers a new theoretical basis for the definition of the European Security Strategy. The text proves that war and peace are ways to achieve a regulatory compromise between manifestations of the active principle, which was initially laid in the foundation of the human mentality, and the influence of the external environment through natural selection.

Churchill's Wizards
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 439

Churchill's Wizards

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War. They broadcast outrageous British propaganda on pretend German radio stations, broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and many were used to send back false information to their controllers. Forged documents misled their intelligence. B...

Selling Hitler
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Selling Hitler

Hitler was one of the few politicians who understood that persuasion was everything, deployed to anchor an entire regime in the confections of imagery, rhetoric and dramaturgy. The Nazis pursued propaganda not just as a tool, an instrument of government, but also as the totality, the raison d'être, the medium through which power itself was exercised. Moreover, Nicholas O'Shaughnessy argues, Hitler, not Goebbels, was the prime mover in the propaganda regime of the Third Reich - its editor and first author. Under the Reich everything was a propaganda medium, a building-block of public consciousness, from typography to communiqués, to architecture, to weapons design. There were groups to init...

Marketing the Third Reich
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Marketing the Third Reich

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this fascinating volume, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketing, conceptualising the Reich as a product campaign. Building on his acclaimed Selling Hitler (2016), he uses marketing scholarship to show how propaganda and political marketing existed not merely as an instrument of government in Nazi Germany, but as the very medium of government itself. Marketing the Third Reich explores the insidious connection between a mass culture and a political movement, and how the cultures of consumption and politics influence and infect each other – consumerised politics and politicised consumption. Ultimately its ...

The Radio Front
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Radio Front

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.

Przegląd historyczno-wojskowy
  • Language: pl
  • Pages: 244

Przegląd historyczno-wojskowy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Die Macht der Wirkungsannahmen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 476

Die Macht der Wirkungsannahmen

Die Studie beleuchtet die Interaktion zwischen Militär und Medien aus der militärischen Perspektive. Der diachron und synchron aufgebaute Vergleich berücksichtigt die Kriegs- wie Friedenszeiten der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gleichermaßen und betont Kontinuitätslinien, aber auch Veränderungen. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der Medienarbeit der britischen und deutschen Streitkräfte werden ebenso herausgearbeitet wie Interaktionen in einem transnationalen militärischen Raum. Der Fokus der kulturgeschichtlichen Arbeit liegt auf den Wahrnehmungen, Erfahrungen und Erwartungen der militärischen Spitzen. Deren Interaktion mit zivilen Regierungsstellen und Parlamenten wird ebenso beleuchtet wie der Aufbau militäreigener Medienspezialisten vor dem Hintergrund der wachsenden Werbe- und PR-Wirtschaft. Ein an die Kommunikationswissenschaften angelehntes Modell militärischer Medienstrategien erlaubt die These, dass es letztlich die Medienwirkungsannahmen eben jener führenden Soldaten waren, die hinter den wesentlichen Dynamiken der militärischen Medienbeziehungen im Zeitalter der Weltkriege standen.