Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945

by Robert Calder

Offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors Provides a comprehensive analysis of the suspicions beneath the wartime Anglo-American alliance Describes the tensions that arose between the British Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773526889
• ISBN13: 9780773526884
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"