Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945

by Tim Luckhurst

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350149497
• ISBN13: 9781350149496
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"