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Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-18 - Routledge Studies in First World War History Wilkin, Bernard (Belgian State Archives) 1st edition
Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 1914-18 - Routledge Studies in First World War History
Wilkin, Bernard (Belgian State Archives)
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.
168 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 12, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472472977 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 168 |
| Dimensions | 252 × 185 × 15 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
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