| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- The Yanks Aren't Coming -- The Strangling Old School Tie -- The Magic of the Word -- Making the War Seem Personal -- Uncoordinated Observations -- One God-Damned Thing after Another -- A Sad Story of Official Duplicity -- Unheralded Ambassadors from England -- Thrilling and Dramatic Fiction -- A Friendly Intruder in a Non-Belligerent World -- The Most Gigantic Engines of Propaganda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
During World War II, the United States was the target of what Gore Vidal has called "the largest, most intricate and finally most successful conspiracy directed at it in the twentieth century"--Great Britain's "vast conspiracy to manoeuvre an essentially isolationist country into the war." In Beware the British Serpent Robert Calder examines British writers' involvement in this propaganda campaign, including lecturing and touring in the United States, broadcasting on American radio, writing screenplays for films such as Mrs. Miniver and This Above All, and writing articles and books for publication in America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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Propaganda, British -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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English literature -- Political aspects.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Political and social views
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Authors, English -- Political and social views
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English literature -- Political aspects
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Propaganda
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Propaganda, British
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War and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773571792 |
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0773571795 |
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0773526889 |
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9780773526884 |
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1282861735 |
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9781282861732 |
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9786612861734 |
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6612861738 |
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