Selling war: the British propaganda campaign against American "neutrality" in World War II

Cover

Contents

Terminology

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Gathering Storm: Britain's American Propaganda Policy, 1937 to 1939

Britain's Dilemma: Britain in American Opinion, 1919 to 1937

Foundations: British Propaganda in the United States, 1919 to 1937

The Awakening: British Planning, 1937 to 1938

Preparing for the Worst: Britain's American Propaganda Policy, September 1938 to September 1939

2 To War with Words: British Propaganda in the United States during the Phoney War, September 1939 to May 1940

The United States and the Phoney War

Fighting the Phoney War in London: The Mol and the BBC

Fighting the Phoney War in the United States: The British Embassy and the British Library of Information

The Development of American Opinion and British Policy

3 Their Finest Hour: Projecting the Battle of Britain, May to September 1940

American Opinion in the Summer of 1940

Lord Lothian's War: New Initiatives, May to August 1940

Duff Cooper's War: New Initiatives in London, May to August 1940

The Battle of Britain and the Destroyer Deal

4 "London Can Take It": British Propaganda and the Blitz, September to December 1940

The Overture: Preparing for the Blitz

"This Is London": The Co-projection of the Blitz on Britain

The Impact of the Blitz: American Sympathy and Its Limits

Beyond the Blitz: Building New Propaganda Machinery in the United States

5 "Give Us the Tools . . .": British Propaganda and American Aid, January to August 1941

New York: Winning the War from Rockefeller Center

London: British Broadcasting and Film, and the Greek Intervention

Washington: Friends, Enemies, and the Supply Crisis

London: The Battle of Bloomsbury

6 War Comes To America: The Road to Pearl Harbor, August to December 1941

The Orchestra of Propaganda: Britain's Overt Campaign in the Autumn of 1941

British Covert Propaganda in the Autumn of 1941

Victory: The United States' Culture of Belligerence

The Reckoning: Pearl Harbor

Epilogue: British Propaganda in the United States after 1941

Conclusion: British Propaganda and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1939 to 1941

Notes

Bibliography

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