Tim Luckhurst

Reporting the Second World War (eBook, PDF)

The Press and the People 1939-1945

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily conforming to the wishes of the wartime coalition. Tim Luckhurst challenges this through an analysis of illuminating and largely forgotten controversies which underscore the function the press held as guardians of democracy and propagators of dissenting opinion in British politics and society - from the overseas evacuation of children to the Allies' carpet bombing of German cities.

Reporting the Second World War is a timely and important intervention that duly recognises the place of national, regional and specialist titles in speaking truth to power in a democracy at war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350149519
• Artikelnr.: 66380909

Autorenporträt

Tim Luckhurst is Principal of South College and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Engagement at Durham University, UK. He is also an award-winning journalist for BBC News and Current Affairs and former editor of The Scotsman, Scotland's national newspaper.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. A Very Brief History of Newspapers
3. The Press Barons, the Abdication of Edward VIII and the Era of
Appeasement
4. Newspapers in the Phoney War
5. Churchill, Norway and Dunkirk
6. Overseas Evacuation
7. Battle of Britain
8. The Blitz
9. Morale, Intimidation and Censorship
10. Britain and Russia: 'One Touch of Hitler Makes the Whole World Kin'
11. Banishing Want from Cradle to Grave: A Symbol of a New Britain
12. Peculiar Problems: Reporting the American Presence
13. 'Bomb Back and Bomb Hard': Allied Bombing of Germany
14. Auschwitz, Belsen and Buchenwald
15. 'What a hair-trigger business the world has become':Victory in Europe,
a General Election, Atomic Bombs and VJ Day
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index