TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodgson,Guy
TI  - War Torn: Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe's Blitz of 1940
SN  - 9781908258946
AV  - D760 .W378 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Chester
PB  - University of Chester
KW  - Bombing, Aerial
KW  - England
KW  - Manchester
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Press coverage
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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