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Ministry of Morale

Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II

By: Ian McLaine

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Ministry of Morale

Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II

By: Ian McLaine

This book, first published in 1979, is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information, responsible for the maintenance of public morale. How was it that British morale remained high, yet the department responsible was so bad? This book examines the domestic work of the Ministry and offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of both government and people during the war. It answers key questions: How did a government department assess and set about maintaining morale? How did it handle the social and political questions associated with morale – post-war social reform, press freedom and censorship, the nature of the Soviet regime? How sound in fact was civilian morale, on the basis of the secret Wartime Intelligence reports then available? One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is the Ministry’s constant internal debate on how its responsibilities should best be carried out. It is a key work of research on the political, psychological and mass communications problems facing a society at war.

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Routledge

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1000458458

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9781000458459

A Korean Conflict

The Tensions between Britain and America

By: Ian McLaine

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A Korean Conflict

The Tensions between Britain and America

By: Ian McLaine

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the UK-US 'special relationship' from the journey to war beginning in 1947 to the fall of the Labour government in 1951. Ian McLaine casts fresh light on relations between Truman and Attlee and their officials, diplomats and advisors, including Acheson and MacArthur. He shows how Britain was persuaded to join a war it could ill afford and was forced to rearm at great cost to the economy. The decision to participate in the war caused great strain to the Labour party--provoking the Bevan-Gaitskell split which was to keep the party out of office for the next decade. McLaine's revisionist study shows how disastrous the war was for the British--and for the Labour party in particular. It sheds important new light on UK-US relations during a key era in diplomatic and Cold War history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857726935

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9780857726933

Appointment at Amalfi

a murder mystery

By: Ian Callinan

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Appointment at Amalfi

a murder mystery

By: Ian Callinan

A world-famous and wealthy Australian film director, Roderick Lily, lingers on through the unfashionable off-season in beautiful Amalfi near Capri. He has become melancholic. He has left a disquieting mystery behind him in the Gold Coast Studios because he has left his greatest and his final film incomplete. Lily, uncharacteristically, sells an exclusive interview to an illustrated gossip magazine in London for a huge fee. What are his motives? There are scandalous rumours about the bizarre death of his wife on a fashionable Sydney beach decades ago. He now promises that he will reveal the truth about this scandal. But frustratingly for the young London journo, he first leads her on a tantalizing guessing game through the plots of his major films. He procrastinates, he philosophises. He insists on taking her around historic Herculaneum. In the meantime, the corrupt financiers of Lily’s final film may have hired a hit-man. They will do anything to stop the film being completed and released. A near fatal boating accident for Lily and the journo off Sorrento is the trigger for a dramatic crescendo. There is a sudden flashback to the Sydney beach thirty years ago and a horrific scene is re-enacted. This is a whodunit with an existential twist in the tail. In the end Callinan creates a drama of illicit love and crippling remorse. Beneath the glittering surface of fame and triumph lurk a fatal error and an unforgiveable sin. There is a justice that is beyond the law and it comes from within.

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214

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Boolarong Press

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1925046672

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9781925046670

Writing the Radio War

Literature, Politics, and the BBC, 1939-1945

By: Ian Whittington

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Writing the Radio War

Literature, Politics, and the BBC, 1939-1945

By: Ian Whittington

An interdisciplinary study of one of the most important monuments in Islamic art

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337

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413617

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9781474413619

Romancing the Revolution

The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left

By: Ian Bullock

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Romancing the Revolution

The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left

By: Ian Bullock

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Athabasca University Press

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192683612X

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9781926836126

Battling With the Truth

The Contrast in the Media Reporting of World War II

By: Ian Garden

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Battling With the Truth

The Contrast in the Media Reporting of World War II

By: Ian Garden

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.' – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Dunkirk, Stalingrad, the Dieppe Raid: there were many bloody and gruesome conflicts fought during the Second World War, yet there was one vital and aggressive battle in which no blood was directly shed – that of the warring nations' battle with the truth. In Battling With the Truth (a follow-up to The Third Reich's Celluloid War) Ian Garden offers fascinating insights into the ways by which both the Axis and Allies manipulated military and political facts for their own ends. By analysing key incidents and contemporary sources from both British and German perspectives, he reveals how essential information was concealed from the public. Asking how both sides could have believed they were fighting a just war, Garden exposes the extent to which their peoples were told downright lies or fed very carefully worded versions of the truth. Often these 'versions' gave completely false impressions of the success or failure of missions – even whole campaigns. Ultimately, Battling With the Truth demonstrates that almost nothing about war is as clear-cut as the reporting at the time makes out. From the past, we can learn valuable lessons about the continuing potential for media manipulation and political misinformation – especially during wartime.

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The History Press

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0750969172

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9780750969178

A Korean Conflict

The Tensions between Britain and America

By: Ian McLaine

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The Tensions between Britain and America

By: Ian McLaine

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857726935

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My Brother Never Cried

Violent Childhoods, Adventurous Lives

By: Ian Greer

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My Brother Never Cried

Violent Childhoods, Adventurous Lives

By: Ian Greer

True family story in the slums of Belfast and Birmingham 1939-2019. The manic father beat the eldest lads and their mam continually. Police, church and schools, aware of the situation, did nothing. Aged 12 and 8 the brothers made a pact that if they survived they would live adventurous lives, break all the unfair rules and never kowtow to anyone.

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1913179400

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Blue Murder

The Screenplay

By: Ian David

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Blue Murder

The Screenplay

By: Ian David

Set in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s, 'Blue Murder' is the story of the friendship between drug dealer and robber Arthur Stanley 'Neddy' Smith and Detective Sergeant Roger 'The Dodger' Rogerson -- and the pot of gold and broken lives that friendship produced. Ian David, the writer of 'Police Crop', 'Joh's Jury' and other TV dramas, researched the story extensively. He met with Neddy Smith and conducted hundreds of interviews as well as consulting published works such as 'Darren Goodsir's Line of Fire' and Neddy Smith's own autobiography 'Neddy'. The result is a powerful and frightening story about police corruption and Sydney's underworld.

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0868196304

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9780868196305

Quack

By: Ian Wilding

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Quack

By: Ian Wilding

Fanny wants out. Her outback town is all mining and money, no one will read her short story about a stallion, and now the people of the town are getting sick. Old Doctor Littlewood's reverse orchiectomies aren't helping. But when the dashing and visionary Doctor Waterman turns up, Fanny might just have a reason to stay. Until the sick start devouring the living. Fanny will have to take a radical approach to healthcare if she wants to get out of town alive. (1 act, 2 male, 2 female).

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Ministry of Morale

Ministry of Morale

A Korean Conflict

A Korean Conflict

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Appointment at Amalfi

Writing the Radio War

Writing the Radio War

Romancing the Revolution

Romancing the Revolution

Battling With the Truth

Battling With the Truth

A Korean Conflict

A Korean Conflict

My Brother Never Cried

My Brother Never Cried

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