WWI PROPAGANDA
Thank you, Lew Rockwell. October 16, 2023. Bryce Report, 1915.
An illustrated account of WWI propaganda.
Falsehoods in War Time: Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War, Arthur Ponsonby, 1928. Thanks to this 2017 talk given by Mark Crispin Miller.
Miller cites Robert Parry’s reporting on Obama’s spin on barrel bombs.
“How Media Bias Fuels Syrian Escalation,” Rick Sterling, Consortium News, April 10, 2017.
Blood and Iron, painted in 1914 by Charles Ernest Butler, perhaps sums up the way in which people across Europe initially thought about the war. Here would be a heroic and fundamentally righteous conflict; everybody believed that God was on their side.
Things turned out different. Rather than the noble war that had been predicted, trenches were dug and winter set in. The Kensingtons at Laventie by Eric Kennington (1915) shows WWI soldiers as they really were; not chivalrous knights, but men trying to keep out the bitter cold.
There was also a home front; somebody had to make the weapons, plough the fields, keep things going — often it was women who stepped up to replace the men who had gone to fight. In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal by George Clausen (1918) remembers those who stayed at home.
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