Spinning history

politics and propaganda in World War II

Spinning history

politics and propaganda in World War II
Nathaniel Lande
Book - 2017

"Bestselling author and historian Nathaniel Lande explores the Great War at the heart of the twentieth century through the prism of theater. He presents the war as a drama that evolved and developed as it progressed, a production staged and overseen by four contrasting masters: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin."--Provided by publisher.

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37413317071027 In transit Non-fiction 940.5488 LANDE
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lande, Nathaniel (Autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]
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505 0 |a Prologue -- Act I. Behind the scenes in a sundered country: the Nazis set the stage in the European Theater -- Introducing the Fuhrer, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler -- The road to the Third Reich -- From choric theater to party rally -- From party rally to German cinema -- Theater of the absurd -- Entr'acte -- Act II. Curtain going up : the lion roars -- The home front: to the airwaves -- A counter-message gets through -- The British rewrite the German script -- Two British radio stations -- Act III. Point/counterpoint : dramatic conflict -- Roosevelt and the isolationists -- Churchill and Roosevelt write the script backstage -- The Nazi counter-message to America -- FDR and a platoon of poets -- The American "patriotic" press responds! -- War comes to America's movie theaters -- On the road with Wild Bill Donovan -- Act IV. Before the final curtain -- The Allies launch a crusade -- Stalingrad compels a revision of the Nazi script -- Interlude -- The Tehran Conference -- A D-Day production -- Miscues and misinterpretations of the Allied script -- Operation Joker -- The beginning of the end -- The end of the beginning. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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