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British WWII propaganda poster during the Battle of Britain. During the Phoney War, the book Why Britain is at War sold a hundred thousand copies. [7]: 38 In 1940 in particular, Winston Churchill made many calls for the British to fight on, and for British units to fight until they died rather than submit. [10]
One of a series of Ministry of Information propaganda posters, comparing industrial workers to members of the armed forces. This one paraphrases Lord Nelson's famous signal; "England expects that every man will do his duty". This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45.
Original 1939 poster. Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II.The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
British World War II propaganda films (1 C, 60 P) Pages in category "British propaganda during World War II" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
D-day assault map of Normandy and northwest coastal France. In British phraseology, Fortress Europe meant the battle honour accorded to Royal Air Force and Allied squadrons during the war, but to qualify, operations had to be made by aircraft based in Britain against targets in Germany, Italy and other parts of German-occupied Europe, in the period from the fall of France to the Normandy invasion.
Italian fascist propaganda poster. Although Germany and Italy were partners in World War II, German propagandists made efforts to influence the Italian press and radio in their favor. In September 1940, the so-called Dina (Deutsch-italienischer Nachrichten-Austausch) service was set up, ostensibly to improve news exchanges during the war. In ...
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...
Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Hertzstein, Robert Edwin (1978). The War That Hitler Won. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-11845-4. Balfour, Michael (1979). Propaganda in War 1939-1945: Organisation, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.