War Torn Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Front cover; Title pages; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents pages; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; Chapter One -- Historical Perspective; 1. 'A jumbled-up nondescript place'; 2. The Christmas Blitz; Chapter Two -- The Press and the Mythology of the Blitz; 1. 'Harlots of democracy'; 2. Creation of the Myth; Chapter Three 'Methodology'; 1. Approaching the Sources; 2. Newspaper Production; 3. Dissemination; 4. The Audience; 5. The Limits of the Research; Part II; Chapter Four -- The Newspapers; 1. Putting on the Battle Dress; 2. The Editors

3. Serious again in the morning'Chapter Five -- Censorship; 1. A Barrage of D-Notices; 2. 'Any use to us?'; 3. Guidance to Editors; 4. Fit to Print: Censorship and the Manchester Blitz; 5. Self-Censorship at the Manchester Guardian; Chapter Six -- Propaganda and the Management of Opinion; 1. The First World War Model; 2. Before the Manchester Blitz; 2.1 Manchester Guardian; 2.2 Manchester Evening News; 2.3 Evening Chronicle; 3. The Blitz editions; 3.1 Manchester Guardian; 3.2 Manchester Evening News; 3.3 Evening Chronicle; 4. The Post-Blitz Editions; 4.1 Manchester Guardian

4.2 Manchester Evening News4.3 Evening Chronicle; 5. 'No one dare report the tears'; Plates; Chapter Seven -- All in this Together?; 1. The Social Divide; 2. Crime and Newspaper Coverage of the Courts; 3. Letters to the Editor; 4. A Template of Cheerfulness; Chapter Eight -- The Aftermath of Christmas 1940; 1. Observing the Masses; 2. Report on Manchester and Liverpool; 3. Contemporary Reaction; 4. Looking Back on Manchester's Blitz; 5. Lingering Suspicion and Rumours; Chapter Nine -- Escape and the Moving News Agenda; 1. Satisfying the Audience?; 2. Entertaining the Masses

3. War and Non-War News4. Piccadilly, Manchester, or Piccadilly, London?; 5. The Times, the Daily Mirror and the Salford City Reporter; Chapter Ten -- 'Useless to Buy Newspapers'; 1. The Front Line; 2. Final Word; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Back cover

This book explores the gap between reality and what appeared in print when Mancunians stopped being distant observers and became the story.

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