Best of Enemies - Britain and Germany - 100 Years of Truth and Lies

Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.In August 1914, Britain''s first act of war was not to mobilise its army or the Grand Fleet. It was to cut cables preventing German propaganda from reaching American newspapers. This war of words would quickly become as vicious as the slaughter on the Western Front.For a century, Britain and Germany had been closer than any other two countries. Germany was Britain''s biggest export market, and vice versa. Germans adopted English dress, customs and manners. German thinking on race, national identity, eugenics, and racial supremacy also had its roots in British thinkers like Darwin, Huxley and Galton. Even as late as the Nazi era, Hess, Himmler, Goering and Hitler himself remained passionate Anglophiles.During WW1, however, Germany, Britain and the USA spent billions on clandestine propaganda to blacken each other''s reputations. This gargantuan effort gave birth to the PR industry itself - later seized upon by Nazi propagandist Goebbels to devastating effect.Richard Milton''s expertly written popular history gives a fresh perspective on this tumultuous, painful love-hate relationship, and is also a brilliant study of propaganda itself - now more than ever a vital weapon of war.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Milton, Milton Richard
• Editore: Icon Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781848310032
• ISBN: 978-1-84831-003-2
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Propaganda, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political control and freedoms, ANF:History, Regional History