Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEWSPAPERS
CHAPTER 2 BARONS, ABDICATION AND APPEASEMENT
The Press Divided
Forewarned and Forearmed
Newspapers and Appeasement
Reporting the Munich Agreement
CHAPTER 3 THE PHONEY WAR
Voluntary Censorship
Evacuation
Dismissal of Leslie Hore-Belisha
A By-election during the Phoney War
The Communist Party during the Phoney War
Press Coverage of the Central Southwark By-election

CHAPTER 4 CHURCHILL, NORWAY AND DUNKIRK
German Invasion of Denmark and Norway
The Norway Debate
A New Prime Minister
Dunkirk: Reporting the Miracle of Deliverance
New Restrictions on the Press
CHAPTER 5 CLASS UNITY AND THE MYTH OF THE BLITZ
Overseas Evacuation
CHAPTER 6 THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
CHAPTER 7 AIR RAID SHELTERS, FAIRNESS AND A NEW HOME SECRETARY
Demands for Retaliation
The Provincial Blitz
CHAPTER 8 MORALE, INTIMIDATION AND CENSORSHIP
'Subversive Articles'
Turning the Screw
The People's Convention
Banning the Daily Worker

Pressure Switches onto the Daily Mirror
The Zec Cartoon
CHAPTER 9 BRITAIN AND RUSSIA: 'ONE TOUCH OF HITLER MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN'
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Invasion of Poland
Soviet Invasion of Finland
Operation Barbarossa
A Second Front
Stalingrad
CHAPTER 10 THE BEVERIDGE REPORT: BANISHING WANT FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE
CHAPTER 11 PECULIAR PROBLEMS: REPORTING THE AMERICANS IN BRITAIN
CHAPTER 12 'BOMB BACK AND BOMB HARD': ALLIED BOMBING OF GERMANY
Hamburg
Massacre by Bombing?
Deliberate Terror Bombing?
Dresden
The Dambusters and Perfect Bombing

CHAPTER 13 CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Hitler's Final Solution
The Fate of the Hungarian Jews
Liberation of Auschwitz
Belsen and Buchenwald
Atrocity Pictures
Inconsistent Coverage
CHAPTER 14 VE DAY, GENERAL ELECTION AND ATOMIC BOMBS
The 1945 General Election
'What a hair-trigger business the world has become'
Atomic Bombs
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX