...The twelve years of the National Socialist Third Reich have received more scholarly attention than any other period of similar duration for the obvious reasons of the brutality of the regime, its novelty, its instigation of the Second World War, and above all, the Holocaust. The pace of change...

...This book examines the issue of British propaganda to France during the Second World War and aims to show the value of the propaganda campaign to the British war effort. It surveys the organisation, operation and nature of the British propaganda effort towards the French people, including both...

...The first section of this chapter describes Stalin and Soviet foreign policy, including ideology and criminality. Like German war aims, those of the Soviet Union in the Second World War were largely decided by one man operating within an ideology, though Soviet Marxism–Leninism was less...

... Victory Bonfire, which describes a VJ day bonfire burning in ‘a sweet September twilight’. By the end of the war, cinematic technique had become endemic in the novel but was rarely used overtly with a political purpose. The Second World War cast doubt on the cinema-driven Benjaminian...

.... However, it also discusses the dividing line of the Second World War. While this event initially seems to extinguish the Arts and Crafts and modernist traditions of literary making previously surveyed, the chapter discusses a number of exceptions, focusing in particular on Basil Bunting, Geoffrey Hill...

... during the Second World War. One example of this came from Ross and Cromarty, a Highland region to which some evacuees had fled after the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941. The local chief constable reported there were existing shortages of common foodstuffs in Stornoway, in the Western Isles, and housewives...

... ‘At work’: a model housing scheme. (Source: Life and Work, October 1940.) Chapter Two examines the moral panic that gripped Britain during the Second World War, and interrogates the associated view that delinquency in Scotland was raging uncontrollably. The chapter sets the scene...

...This introductory chapter studies the importance of secrecy as a theme and structural device in contemporary fiction, first looking at the significance of secrecy during the Second World War, especially in relation to military strategies. It then considers how structures of revelation and secrecy...

... stories published within her magazine Sunny Stories which draw upon wartime propaganda to present a vision of the enemy as inherently dictatorial, corrupt, and as subhuman. The content of Blyton’s magazine demonstrates an engagement with the Second World War that challenges the perception of the author...

... Agreement MacNeice Louis Éamon de Valera Second World War non-belligerency neutrality interstate relations Britain France Germany When, on the evening of Sunday, 3 September 1939, Éamon de Valera broadcast to the people of Éire, as the Irish state had been renamed two years earlier, Britain...

... views and, especially with the coming of the Second World War, aerial photography, this chapter calls for a more dialectical reading of the role of cinematicity and the aerial view in modern perception, one that emphasizes how the aerial subject simultaneously can encompass seemingly opposed experiences...

...Chapter 5 focuses on propaganda documentaries of the Second World War, when documentary took a dominant public role extending far beyond any it had played before. This era's marriage of propaganda and documentary speaks to elements of propaganda that haunt the documentaries of other eras...

...Writing the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the ‘broadbrow’ radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features...

...., 1942). The female lead in this film noir, Illona Wieselmann, was forced to flee to neutral Sweden after being betrayed by the film’s producer, Henning Karmark, who had joined the Danish Nazi Party. Karmark was nevertheless able to resume his lucrative career as film tycoon after the Second World War...

...Each of these historical dramas focuses on the story of an interracial relationship. The first between a black African man and a white British woman, and the second between a young biracial black woman in Germany prior to the Second World War and a young white German who is the son of a Nazi...

...The fundamental conclusion of this book is that Anglo-American relations in South America during the Second World War failed to conform to the pattern of economic diplomacy whereby the US advocated multilateralism against British opposition. It was, in fact, Britain that eventually became the chief...

...Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English ‘everyman’, his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from...

... factors which impacted on ageing femininities, including the Second World War, the post-war settlement and the Welfare State, and looks at the implications for the women’s movement as a whole....

...Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War addresses this oversight by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish history...

...This chapter provides a brief account of Time and Tide during and after the Second World War, including the succession of mergers and transitions it passed through after the death of its editor, Lady Margaret Rhondda, in 1958. Still appearing weekly on news-stands in Britain during...