Whispers of War: Underground Propaganda Rumour-Mongering in the Second World War

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www.psywar.org, 2010 - Political Science - 236 pages
A history of the use of rumours in the Second World War by the Brtish Government's Underground Propaganda Committee. Its job was to undermine the morale of German troops and civilians and to bolster the morale of the oppressed peoples of Occupied Europe. The book contains a collection of over 1,500 of the most noteworthy, provocative and amusing subversive rumours concocted.
 

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Contents

THE UNDERGROUND PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE
1
SIB DIRECTIVES
25
SIB CODE NUMBERS
54
BOMBER OFFENSIVE
60
ANTIINVASION OF GREAT BRITAIN
67
AXIS AND SATELLITE PARTNERS
74
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
82
CONSPIRACIES AND INTRIGUES
88
HESS
118
HITLER
126
LOOTING AND ART TREASURES
132
MALINGERING AND DESERTION
139
MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE
146
NEW AND SECRET WEAPONS
162
OCCUPIED COUNTRIES
175
RELIGION
194

EASTERN FRONT
94
ECONOMIC WARFARE
101
HEALTH AND DISEASE
110
SEX AND PORNOGRAPHY
211
THE Z ORGANISATION
226
Copyright

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About the author (2010)

Lee Richards has been researching and writing about the history of propaganda and psychological warfare for over 25 years. He was a long term member of the PsyWar Society and for a number of years edited its quarterly journal The Falling Leaf. In 1997 he launched the well-respected website www.psywar.org to further research into this field.
Richards has supplied research to and been interviewed by the international media including BBC television in the UK, PBS in America, and newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, America in WWII, WWII magazine and others. Items from his expansive collection of propaganda literature have appeared on BBC’s “QI”  and  “The One Show” and PBS’ “History Detectives”.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhispers of War: Underground Propaganda Rumour-Mongering in the Second World War
AuthorLee Richards
Publisherwww.psywar.org, 2010
ISBN0954293649, 9780954293642
Length236 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Military / General
History / Military / World War II
Political Science / Propaganda
  
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