The Echo of War
Subtitle: Home Front Propaganda and the Wartime BBC, 1939-1945
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780719046094
Subjects: Radio in propaganda; Propaganda; History; History - General History; Military - World War II; World War, 1939-1945; Propaganda, British; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; Great Britain; 20th century
Description: The echo of war investigates the central role played by the BBC in the lives of the British people during the Second World War.

Using BBC archives and contemporary public opinion research, the book contrasts government-directed propaganda with the BBC's own attempts to boost morale. It investigates how radio portrayed Britain's wartime enemies and allies. It describes how the BBC's War Reporting Unit brought listeners close to the front line for the first time.

Finally, it considers how, through its contribution to the 'reconstruction' debate, the BBC consolidated not only a lasting image of the 'People's War', but a compelling vision of the 'People's Peace'.