UID:
almahu_9949383156902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781317184928
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1317184920
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9781317184935
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1317184939
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9781315565804
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1315565803
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9781317184911
,
1317184912
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in First World War History
Content:
Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-1918 explores the combined role played by the French and British Governments and Armies in creating and distributing millions of aerial newspapers and leaflets aimed at the French population trapped behind German lines. Drawing on extensive research and French, German and British primary sources, the book highlights a previously unknown aspect of psychological warfare that challenges the established interpretation that the occupied populations lived in a state of total isolation and that the Allied governments had no desire to provide them with morale support. Instead a very different picture emerges from this study, which demonstrates that aerial propaganda not only played a fundamental role in raising morale in the occupied territories but also fuelled resistance and clandestine publications. This book demonstrates that the existing historiographical portrayal of the occupied civilian as an uninformed victim must be replaced by a more nuanced interpretation.
Note:
The Germans in the occupied territories of France -- The French reaction (1915-1916) -- Anglophobia and the Franco-British rupture (1916-1917) -- Aerial cooperation and the conflict between pilots and propagandists (1915-1918) -- Morale crisis, socialism and peace offers (1917-1918) -- The road to victory -- Reception, impact and legacies (1918-1940).
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wilkin, Bernard. Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-18. Milton : Taylor and Francis, ©2016 ISBN 9781472472977
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315565804
