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Informationen zum Autor David Clampin is Lecturer in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He completed his PhD at the University of Wales! Aberystwyth. The 'blitz', the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during the Second World War, was a formative period for British national identity. This book examines images, campaigns and slogans which helped to form the fabled 'Blitz spirit', powerfully echoed in Winston Churchill's speeches. Zusammenfassung The Blitz, the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during the Second World War, was a formative period for British national identity. In this groundbreaking book, David Clampin looks at the images, campaigns and slogans which helped to form the fabled 'Blitz spirit', powerfully echoed in Winston Churchill's speeches. During the war, advertisers attempted to capitalise on war-time patriotism and, therefore, Clampin's unique focus on advertising provides a visually rich seam of new information on the everyday war and contributes to the debate on people's experiences of war and nationalism.Using a remarkable and hitherto unseen range of primary source material-advertisements in the press, slogans and posters, this work will reshape the contested meanings of the 'Home Front', opening up cultural history discourses on gender and nationalism. Advertising and Propaganda in World War II is essential reading for historians of World War II as well as students and scholars of Media Studies and Communication Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Place of Commercial Advertising in Wartime Britain2. War Begins at Home3. Instruction and Direction4. Fighting the War via Consumption5. Gender Identities through the War6. Defining the Postwar WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
