- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- On a Wireless Set
- List of Illustrations
- Preface (1970)
- 1. Perspectives
- II Sitzkrieg
- 1. Behind the Scenes
- 2. ‘Twelve Weeks of War’
- 3. An Alternative Programme
- 4. A Second Alternative Programme
- 5. Answering Back
- III Attack and Defence
- 1. Blitzkrieg
- 2. Attack by Radio
- 3. Britain and France
- 4. Counter-attack
- 5. The Battle of Britain
- IV World War
- 1. ‘Sounds of War’
- 2. Controllers and Controlled
- 3. ‘Triple Expansion’
- 4. V for Victory
- 5. Russia and the United States
- V Total Effort
- 1. Propaganda and Intelligence
- 2. The World Map of Radio
- 3. Reorganization
- 4. The Pattern of Programmes
- 5. Politics, Religion, and Society
- VI Victory and Reconstruction
- 1. Prelude
- 2. D-Day and After
- 3. A Year of Climax
- 4. Reconstruction
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix A Establishment and Staff Numbers 1939–1945
- Appendix B Numbers of Wireless Licences, and Sales of the Radio Times and The Listener
- Appendix C Number of Radio Sets in Europe, 1938/1946
- Index
Russia and the United States
Russia and the United States
- Chapter:
- 5. Russia and the United States
- Source:
- The War of Words
- Author(s):
Asa Briggs
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the wartime broadcasting during Russia and the U.S.'s entry into the European theatre of World War 2. It discusses Germany's broadcasting of its detailed war plans to invade Russia followed non-broadcast propaganda until June 29, 1921. It describes how the American commentators and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responded to the German broadcast propaganda.
Keywords: wartime broadcasting, Russia, United States, World War 2, Germany, propaganda
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- On a Wireless Set
- List of Illustrations
- Preface (1970)
- 1. Perspectives
- II Sitzkrieg
- 1. Behind the Scenes
- 2. ‘Twelve Weeks of War’
- 3. An Alternative Programme
- 4. A Second Alternative Programme
- 5. Answering Back
- III Attack and Defence
- 1. Blitzkrieg
- 2. Attack by Radio
- 3. Britain and France
- 4. Counter-attack
- 5. The Battle of Britain
- IV World War
- 1. ‘Sounds of War’
- 2. Controllers and Controlled
- 3. ‘Triple Expansion’
- 4. V for Victory
- 5. Russia and the United States
- V Total Effort
- 1. Propaganda and Intelligence
- 2. The World Map of Radio
- 3. Reorganization
- 4. The Pattern of Programmes
- 5. Politics, Religion, and Society
- VI Victory and Reconstruction
- 1. Prelude
- 2. D-Day and After
- 3. A Year of Climax
- 4. Reconstruction
- Bibliographical Note
- Appendix A Establishment and Staff Numbers 1939–1945
- Appendix B Numbers of Wireless Licences, and Sales of the Radio Times and The Listener
- Appendix C Number of Radio Sets in Europe, 1938/1946
- Index
