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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II: Words at War

Name: The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II: Words at War
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World War II 1939-1945

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Time bombs, Trojan Horses and Dithering Hamlets were all part of the everyday jargon of the World War IIs ultra-Secretive Political Warfare Executive (PWE). The PWEs instructors used these terms in the training of the next generation of propagandists and political warriors. The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus reveals for the first time what it took to become a propagandist in what was then the most elite psychological warfare unit in the world. Under the maxim that a good propagandist is trained not born, the lecturers of the PWE Training School at Woburn Abbey and then Brondesbury systematically explored every aspect of how to deliver a lethal dose of propaganda to the enemy and then a purgative and curative dose in the peace that followed. The views of the PWEs instructors were controversial. This is significant because they would play an important, if hidden, role in how Europe is developing even today. For example, they held a low opinion of the French in general and considered that they had been reduced to the level of dithering Hamlets by the German Trojan Horses even before the first German tank had crossed the Belgian frontier. On the dark side of PWE operations, they were not above killing the prostitutes whose brothels served the German U-Boot fleet in order to amplify their propaganda message. Perhaps most significant is that they saw Great Britain as European and espoused a Europe that looks very much like the European Union of the early 21st Century. However, there is one important difference. They saw this Greater Europe as accepting the British way of life and being led by Great Britain and not embracing American culture under German leadership. This first volume introduces the reader to the history and theory of political warfare as seen through the eyes of the inheritors of Lord Northcliffes Crewe House. Drawing on J. F. C. Fuller and his concept of a war fought in the mind without armies, it establishes the theoretical parameters of political warfare.

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Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1527533360
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Military History > World War II 1939-1945
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 July 2019
Listed Since: 24 April 2019

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