Reporting the Second World War

The Press and the People 1939-1945

Prof. Tim Luckhurst (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14948-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-14948-9 / 1350149489
ISBN-13	978-1-350-14948-9 / 9781350149489
Zustand	Neuware