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In the second installment of Jonathan Dimbleby's BBC At War, Dimbleby further explores the use of propaganda as a military weapon and tool of social control in World War II. Through the final years of the war, the BBC Corporation and its presenters were able to prove the BBC's motive as a source of public service to the British people, sealing its reputation. Colonel Britton's V-for-Victory campaign and BBC's coverage of the D-Day bombings are also...

This book looks at Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's collaborations, the adventures that led to them, the evolving political stances that informed them, and the aftereffects and influences of their work on their careers and those of others. Caldwell's novels Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) made the author a popular chronicler of the South but also a controversial one, due to his work's political themes and depictions of...

With the words "This is London," Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not avoid a confrontation with Hitler and that the bombs it heard falling during his reports would eventually be targeted at American cities. But although often cited as the paragon of journalistic objectivity,...