War and the Media

Mark Connelly is a Reuters Lecturer in Media and Propaganda History, and David Welch is Professor of Modern History, both at University of Kent in Canterbury.

• List of Illustrations – viiIntroduction: ‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: The Changing Context of Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. David Welch – ixThe British press During the South African War: The Sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith. Jacqueline Beaumont – 1Mobilizing the Masses: The Organization of German Propaganda During World War One. David Welch – 10‘The Missing Western Front’: British Politics, Strategy, and Propaganda in 1918. Stephen Badsey – 47Holy War in Europe: Charles Saroléa, Everyman and the First World War, 1914-17. Samantha T. Johnson – 65Der Magische Gürtle (The Enchanted Circle, 1917) – A Case Study in First World War German Film Propaganda. Roger Smither – 82‘The Mediator’: Images of Radio in Wartime Feature Film in Britain and Germany. Jo Fox – 92‘Temperamentally Unwarlike’: The Image of Italy in the Allies’ War Propaganda, 1943-1945. Ilaria Favretto and Oliviero Bergamini – 112Humphrey Jennings: The Poet as Propagandist. Jeffrey Richards. 127War Report (BBC 1944-5) and the Birth of the BBC War Correspondent. Siân Nicholas – 139Cinematic Propaganda During the Cold War: A Comparison of British and American Movies. Tony Shaw – 162‘The Man in Ed Murro’s Shoes’: Carl T. Rowan as Director of the United States Information Agency, 1964-65. Nicholas J. Cull – 183American Television Coverage of the Vietnam War: The Loan Execusion Footage, the Tet Offensive (1968) and the Contextualization of Visual. David Culbert – 204Vietnam’s Tet Offensive (1968) on British Television: An Overview. Christine Whittaker – 214Contesting War: British Media Reporting and the 1982 South Atlantic War. Klaus Dodds – 218Missing in Authenticity? Media War in the Digital Age. Susan Carruthers – 236The Fourth Arm and the Fourth Estate: Psychological Operations and the Media. Philip M. Taylor – 251Learning the Lessons of the 20th Century: The Evolution in British Military Attitude to the Media on Operations and in War. Lt. Col. Angus Taverner – 264Straddling the Divide – Spinning for Both Sides. Mark Laity – 275Afterword. Mark Laity – 292Contributors – 297Index – 301