DeLong - The Big Book of War Propaganda Posters: Volume Three: A Kindle Coffee Table Book

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Big Book of War Propaganda Posters: Volume One

The Big Book of War Propaganda Posters: Volume Two

The Big Book of Vintage Advertising Posters (3 Volumes)

The Big Book of Vintage Movie Posters (3 Volumes)

The Yesteryear Gazette (3 Volumes)

Arts Most Beautiful Women

Arts Most Beautiful Nudes

Arts Most Beautiful Orientalist Paintings

(This is the third volume of a three-volume set of war propaganda posters. It features over 200 high-resolution images that have been digitally enhanced in order to give them maximum impact.)

Propaganda is information that is designed to convince the reader or viewer to accept a certain point of view or set of facts. It has come to usually have a negative meaning because it is often manipulative and deceptive in its presentation and usually seeks to evoke an emotional response in the reader rather than a logical response.

Propaganda is not a recent phenomenon. The first examples of propaganda were produced before the time of Christ, over 2000 years ago. Of course, these days propaganda has become much more sophisticated and can be found in many different media.

This 3-volume series of propaganda posters is focused on the vast amount of propaganda that was produced for World War One and World War Two, with the First World War representing the first time that governments had produced large-scale organized amounts of propaganda in order to influence public opinion and to encourage certain values and ideas among their populations. The propaganda poster became perhaps the most important and interesting form of propaganda produced by all the governments involved in the two world wars.

This series of Kindle Coffee Table Books consists of nearly 700 war propaganda posters, mostly from the United States (which produced nearly 200,000 different designs), but also from a number of other countries. The bulk of the collection is from World War Two, with a smaller number from World War One. Chapters have been organized to represent different themes. They include such things as encouraging people to buy war bonds, motivating workers in factories to produce more armaments and other war necessities, warning soldiers about the dangers of venereal diseases, creating a patriotic fervor among the populace and, of course, demonizing the enemy. Posters were placed in places such as factories, post offices, train stations, schools, restaurants, and stores.

Many of the posters in this collection are rather dark and even gruesome, and one of the more troubling aspects of the posters is the vicious racist portrayals of the enemies, primarily the Japanese. Apparently, if you wanted to demonize the enemy in wartime, it was considered permissible to be over-the-top in depicting racist images.

The purpose of this book is twofold. It provides the reader with a unique insight into the culture surrounding the two world wars, but it will also, hopefully, foster an appreciation for the art and the artists that created these remarkable posters. Competitions were held among government agencies, which would then choose the best designs. The artists were not compensated for their work, but perhaps saw it as their patriotic contribution to the war effort.

I hope youll enjoy viewing these fascinating posters, and if the spirit moves you it would be great if you could write a quick review on our Amazon page!

Douglas DeLong

January 2019

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