The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few PDF
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The Good Fight This page intentionally left blank The Good Fight Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few Garry Campion ©GarryCampion2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-1-4039-8998-7 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2009by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. Macmillan®isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean Unionandothercountries. ISBN 978-0-230-27996-4 ISBN 978-0-230-29164-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230291645 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Campion,Garry,1963– Thegoodfight:BattleofBritainpropagandaandthefew/Garry Campion. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. For Suzanne FromaSergeantPilot God,giveusgracethatwe, Flyingourfighterstoeternity, Maymeteor-likebeforewefall Leavefierytrailsoflight,thatall Truth’ssonsmayclutch,andclutchingrise ToblastHell’sspawnfromHeaven’sskies. PilotOfficerO.C.Chave 3July1940[452,p.11] Contents ListofIllustrations x AcknowledgementsandPermissions xi Abbreviations xiii Chronology–May1940–March1941 xv Introduction 1 Thedisputedinvasionthreat 1 Thepropagandawar 6 1 ATangleofVapourTrails 9 Definingpropaganda 9 TheAirMinistry 12 ‘MinistryofMorale’ 25 WinstonChurchill 33 Conclusions 35 2 SquadronsUp 36 RAFFighterCommand 36 TheLuftwaffe 48 TheBattleofBritain 51 Reckoning 58 3 ArisetoConquer 64 RAFpilots’combatexperiencesandmorale 64 LuftwaffemoraleandtheFew 71 ContemporarytributestotheFew 73 British,Empireandinternationaltributes 85 Deliverance 90 4 WingedWords 91 Collatingandbroadcastingtheclaims 91 Breakingthenews 96 PersuadingBritain 101 Theaircraft-claimingcontroversy 104 Significance 114 vii viii Contents 5 MasteryoftheAir 116 Wirelesspropagandists 116 BBChomenewscoverage 120 Contribution 133 6 FinestHour 134 ‘Hot’propaganda:thepress 134 Warrior-heroes 140 Offthefrontpages−TheMirrorandTheTimes 147 Magazinesandjournals 151 Conclusions 159 7 MenLikeThese 161 Newsreelsaspropaganda 161 NewsreelcoverageofFighterCommand 163 Americannewsreels 175 MOI‘shorts’ 179 Arestrospective 187 8 TheSky’stheLimit 189 TheRAFinfocus 189 PhotographingtheFew 192 PortrayingtheLuftwaffe 197 Newspaperandmagazinecartoons 198 Magazineillustrations 206 Newspaperandmagazineadvertisements 208 Posters 212 Warart−officialandsemi-official 214 Battleiconographyinretrospect 222 9 CombatReport 224 People’swar:BritainandtheBattle 224 PersuadingAmerica 236 TheAxis:GermanyandItaly 244 Persuadingtheworld 246 Winningthepropagandawar 249 10 TheR.A.F.inAction 251 Cinema,propagandaandtheRAF 251 AmericaandtheFew 266 Retrospectandpost-warcinema 275 Contents ix 11 ToSoFew 278 Publishingpropaganda 278 Officialandsemi-officialpropaganda 280 Unofficialpropaganda 301 Inspiringtheyoung–officialandunofficialpublications 304 Post-warhistoriography 307 Conclusion 311 WarArtists’Appendix 315 Bibliography 317 Index 336
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