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Write propaganda, shut up, or fight: Philip Gibbs and the Western Front
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Kerby, M and Baguley, M and MacDonald, AJ, Write propaganda, shut up, or fight: Philip Gibbs and the Western Front, The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War since 1914, Palgrave Macmillan, M Kerby, M Baguley and J McDonald (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 219-236. ISBN 978-3-319-96985-5 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_13
Abstract
The British War Correspondents who reported from the Western Front during the First World War have not been treated well by history. Though many were rewarded with fame and fortune, in the post-war years, their reports were the subject of considerable scrutiny. At best, they have been characterised as naïve dupes of the military and victims of censorship. At worst, they have been impugned as co-conspirators in a web of deceit and lies, the effects of which reverberate to this day. The truth, however, is far more nuanced than that—a reality that is nowhere clearer than in the reports written by Philip Gibbs, the most famous correspondent of them all.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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| Keywords: | art, first world war, war correspondents, censorship, propaganda |
| Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
| Research Group: | Art history, theory and criticism |
| Research Field: | Art history |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies |
| UTAS Author: | MacDonald, AJ (Dr Abbey MacDonald) |
| ID Code: | 128941 |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2018-10-27 |
| Last Modified: | 2020-05-05 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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