WWII PROPAGANDA: ART of PERSUASION/NAZI GERMANY/ BIG

A very large and lavishly illustrated book offering a detailed and comprehensive of propaganda efforst in World War II. With hundreds of color pictures of the propaganda postures, fliers, and advertisements produced by Nazy Germany as well as Italy under Mussolini and the Allies. Published more than 20 years ago, this book is now out-of-print and scarce. Such a nice copy will not be available soon on ebay.  

From the Dust Jacket:  "Propaganda:  Professionals have called it the fourth front of warfare, comparing its strategic importance to military campaigns, diplomatic negotiations, and economic sanctions.  No one has claimed that the tide of conflict has been turned solely by leaflets, radio broadcasts, posters, or psychological ploys, but there is little doubt that propaganda has been a powerful weapon in the arsenal of war.  During WWII, propagandists exhorted citizens at home to produce more, keep their lips sealed, and hate the enemy; at the front they sought to strengthen the morale of their own troops and weaken the enemy's will to fight.  Each major belligerent had its propaganda strategy.  The Nazis idealized the Aryan superman and blamed Jews, bankers, and Bolsheviks for the world's ills.  Britain, soft-pedaling "hate the enemy" themes, bolstered her people's quiet determination to defeat the Axis.  American propagandists beat the drum for democratic values and created grim stereotypes of the enemy.  The Soviets invoked the nationalist image of Mother Russia as the fecund source of their power to repel the invaders.  This book presents, for the firs time, a visual compendium of all forms of propaganda used by the Allied and Axis powers in WWII and in the period that led to is outbreak.  here are the posters of Shahn, Boccasile, Hohlwin, and Fougasse; the cartoons of Fitzpatrick, Low, Seppla, and the Kukriniksi; stills from the films of John Huston, Noel Coward, and Leni Riefenstahl; photos of Tokyo Rose and Fritz Kuhn; comic books, magazine covers, paintings, leaflets, stamps, newspapers, postcards, sheet music; all the artifacts of the art of persuasion more than 550 photographs, over 270 in full color, culled from government archives and private collections in the US and abroad."

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Large & heavy Quarto - sized hardcover book with a Dust Jacket; 319 pages of text & 550 photographs, over 270 in full color. Very Good+ condition: no writing or markings in text; no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings. Original publisher's hardcover binding, with light edgewear.  Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with light wear and slight fraying.   A solid copy of this interesting book.

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