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Cod. 2603E
EUR 15,00


Francesco Billi
IL RACCONTO POSTALE DELLA GRANDE GUERRA
Origini della comunicazione di massa in Italia e in Romagna
Propaganda e satira nel primo conflitto mondiale

208 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

THE POSTAL TALE OF THE GREAT WAR
The origins of mass communication in Italy and in Romagna
Propaganda and satire in World War I

The Great War put, for the first time, European masses in front of the ideologies, of the hopes and of the fears of a complex, technological and globalized world: it was the big bang of contemporary age for the Old Continent. Thanks to a wide iconographic archive, this books aims to reminisce the tragedy of World War I, by means of more than 250 images in which myths, symbols and rites of the Great War are represented in figures of rare suggestion. In the year zero of communication, iconographies and postal items produced from 1914 to 1919, in the public and private sphere, generate a mosaic of chronicle and images that can now narrate the conflict at the origin of our society: from the revivals of Dante and Garibaldi to the development of modern propaganda, from refined illustrators to the desecrating political satire, passing through the heroes of Romagna, the birth of the American myth, the bombing of Ravenna, the legend of Baracca, until victory.
Cod. 2749E
EUR 60,00


Giorgio Leandro
TOP SECRET
ASSE VS ALLEATI
Fake news nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Spionaggio e Propaganda psicologica

570 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2019
Italian text

TOP SECRET
AXIS VS ALLIED FORCES
Fake news in WWII
Espionage and psychological propaganda

A real war of propagandist communication between the Forces of the Axis and the Allies, capable of reviving the main war events by means of curiosities and heroic deeds.

More than 1500 images and original documents of that period (postcards, fliers, postage stamps, banknotes...), witness to real military or civil missions, oriented to manipulate and condition the psychological balance of the masses or of the enemy soldiers.

The "fake news" of WWII on paper, studied to modify the destiny of the conflict: operations of the secret services and of the anti - psychological propaganda systems of the main nations involved (Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, France, USA, Soviet Union).

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