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A battle for neutral Europe : British cultural propaganda during the Second World War

By Edward , Corse

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
ISBN
1441199632, 978-1-4411-9963-8, 978-1-4411-4336-5, 144114336X, 978-1-4411-5330-2, 1441153306
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2659628 bytes)
Pages
240\273
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
1939-1945 -- Propaganda. BritishBritish -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.British. Europe.World War

Description

A Battle for Neutral Europe describes and analyses the forgotten story of the British government's cultural propaganda organization, the British Council, in its campaign to win the hearts and minds of people in neutral Europe during the Second World War. The book draws on a range of previously unused material from archives from across Europe and private memoirs to provide a unique insight into the work of the leading British artists, scientists, musicians and other cultural figures who travelled to Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey at great personal risk to promote British life and thought in a time of war. Edward Corse shows how the British Council played a subtle but crucial role in Britain's war effort and draws together the lessons of the British Council experience to produce a new model of cultural propaganda.

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