Advertising and Propaganda in World War II: Cultural Identity and the Blitz Spirit

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The Blitz, the period of Nazi bombing campaigns on civilian Britain during the Second World War, was a formative period for British national identity. In this groundbreaking book, David Clampin looks at the images, campaigns and slogans which helped to form the fabled ‘Blitz spirit’, powerfully echoed in Winston Churchill’s speeches. During the war, advertisers attempted to capitalise on war-time patriotism and, therefore, Clampin’s unique focus on advertising provides a visually rich seam of new information on the everyday war and contributes to the debate on people’s experiences of war and nationalism.

Using a remarkable and hitherto unseen range of primary source material-advertisements in the press, slogans and posters, this work will reshape the contested meanings of the ‘Home Front’, opening up cultural history discourses on gender and nationalism. Advertising and Propaganda in World War II is essential reading for historians of World War II as well as students and scholars of Media Studies and Communication Studies.

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