Underground Propaganda Rumour-mongering in the Second World War. A collection of over 1,500 of the most noteworthy,... More > provocative and amusing subversive rumours concocted by the British Government's Underground Propaganda Committee throughout the Second World War. < Less

Underground Propaganda Rumour-mongering in the Second World War.

A collection of over 1,500 of the most noteworthy,... More > provocative and amusing subversive rumours concocted by the British Government's Underground Propaganda Committee throughout the Second World War.

*** UPC rumour, September 1940:
"The Germans are going to take down the Eiffel Tower to use the metal for munitions."

*** UPC rumour, August 1942:
"Italian battalion at Split mutinied after human finger nail discovered in canned meat."

*** UPC rumour, September 1943:
"Hand grenades issued to Germans in Russia explode immediately the pin is drawn out. This is a result of the Trojan horse methods employed by French workers in Germany."

*** UPC rumour, July 1944:
"The flying bombs consume as much petrol a day as 100 tanks." < Less

BRITISH CLANDESTINE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST THE THIRD REICH

A profusely illustrated history and catalogue of British... More > "black" propaganda literature produced by the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.

(Full-colour hardback edition also available) < Less

BRITISH CLANDESTINE PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST THE THIRD REICH

A profusely illustrated history and catalogue of British... More > "black" propaganda literature produced by the Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War.

(A more economic B&W paperback edition also available) < Less

In 1942 the "black" propaganda section of the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) produced the first in a range of... More > disguised booklets designed to assist would be malingerering German soldiers and munitions workers to fake illness to avoid military service or compulsory factory work.

The most famous version was called Krankheit rettet - "Illness Saves by Doctor Do Good".

The booklet informed its reader how to simulate a multitude of illnesses and diseases from a simple throat infection to life-threatening tuberculosis.

Now for the first time the complete malingering text including contemporary illustrations and a foreword by PsyWar historian Lee Richards is available in English.

This is a fascinating part of the clandestine propaganda war between Germany and Great Britain in World War II. It has been translated and reproduced for readers and historians interested in psychological warfare but the advice contained within should not be tried out for real! < Less

A reprint, for the first time, of the official history of the Psychological Warfare Division of Supreme Headquarters Allied... More > Expeditionary Force. The original book was printed in the American zone of Germany at the end of the Second World War with a small limited circulation. PWD/SHAEF was an Anglo-American organisation tasked with the production and dissemination of aerial propaganda leaflets, radio broadcasting to enemy troops, and the use of tactical mobile loudspeakers to talk German soldiers into surrendering. (13 photographs plus 24 other illustrations)

See www.psywar.org for more information on the history of psychological warfare and military propaganda leaflets. < Less