Reporting the Second World War

Tim Luckhurst is Principal of South College and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Engagement at Durham University, UK. He is also an award-winning journalist for BBC News and Current Affairs and former editor of The Scotsman, Scotland’s national newspaper.

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1. Introduction
2. A Very Brief History of Newspapers
3. The Press Barons, the Abdication of Edward VIII and the Era of Appeasement
4. Newspapers in the Phoney War
5. Churchill, Norway and Dunkirk
6. Overseas Evacuation
7. Battle of Britain
8. The Blitz
9. Morale, Intimidation and Censorship
10. Britain and Russia: ‘One Touch of Hitler Makes the Whole World Kin’
11. Banishing Want from Cradle to Grave: A Symbol of a New Britain
12. Peculiar Problems: Reporting the American Presence
13. 'Bomb Back and Bomb Hard': Allied Bombing of Germany
14. Auschwitz, Belsen and Buchenwald
15. ‘What a hair-trigger business the world has become’:Victory in Europe, a General Election, Atomic Bombs and VJ Day

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index