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The information front : the Canadian Army and news management during the second World War / Timothy Balzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzer, Timothy, 1966-
- Series:
- Studies in Canadian military history, 1496-6251.
- Studies in Canadian military history, 1499-6251
- Studies in Canadian Military History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda--Canada.
- Propaganda, Canadian--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, Canadian.
- Armed Forces and mass media--Canada--History--20th century.
- Armed Forces and mass media.
- Canada. Canadian Army--Public relations--History--20th century.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (xii, 255 p.) : ill., ports., digital file.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In wartime, it is not only success on the battlefield that determines victory. Winning hearts and minds is a vital part of military strategy and relies in large part on the effective management of how and what information is reported from the front. This illuminating study explores how the Canadian military developed and relied on public relations units to manage news during the Second World War. The soldiers assigned to these units, mainly former journalists, were responsible for censoring information, supervising and assisting war correspondents, coordinating policy with the Allies, and ensuring the steady flow of news to Canada. Using public relations case studies from Dieppe, the Sicilian campaign, and Normandy that reveal clashes among individual commanders and politicians, the press, the military, the government, and the Canadian public, The Information Front offers a balanced and intelligent discussion of how the military used censorship and propaganda to rally support for the war effort.
- Contents:
- The beginnings : the growth of Canadian Army PR and policy, September 1939 to June 1943
- Trial and error : Sicily and Italy, July 1943 to June 1944
- The publicity machine : the Northwest Europe Campaign and beyond, June 1944 to May 1945
- "Sugaring the pill" : selling Dieppe to Canadians
- Public relations triumph, press relations debacle : the Invasion of Sicily
- Murder, massacre, and friendly fire : three Normandy case studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-1900-6
- 1-280-77783-4
- 9786613688224
- 0-7748-1901-4
- OCLC:
- 799729782
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