British Readers, War Reporting and the Western Front, 1914–18
Journal: First World War Studies
Year: 2025

The complexity and variety of responses to war reporting during and after the First World War has been obscured by the critical re-assessment that began with works like C.E. Montague’s <i>Disenchantment</i> (1922) and Arthur Ponsonby’s <i>Falsehood in Wartime</i> (1928) in the 1920s. For Montague, the war had exposed the deceitful character of the press: ‘Now, in the biggest event of their lives, hundreds of thousands of men were able to check for themselves the truth … They felt they had found