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Propaganda & Psychological Warfare

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Hoover's library materials encompass nearly 300,000 titles, with the total number of volumes well over half a million. These holdings include books, periodicals, newspapers, and other distinctive and rare publications that support research on war, revolution, and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our library materials related to Propaganda & Psychological Warfare.

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A Psychological Warfare Casebook: The editors illustrate the important aspects and principles of psychological warfare which could be used for training or reference purposes by civilian or military officers who may come in contact with psychological warfare operators.

Enemy Propaganda Newspapers, written in German and French: Several copies of Gazette des Ardennes, a newsletter in gothic German and an anti-American cartoon. 

Film and Propaganda in America: In this five-volume series, David Culbert brings together documents that reflect the richness of American archives and suggest the central role film played in American wartime instruction as well as attempts to explain the meaning of the war to American soldiers and citizens.

Psychological Warfare Reports: A revision of a report made to the United States Office of Strategic Services in 1945 detailing combat propaganda in Africa, Italy, United Kingdom and France, 1943-1944. 

Japanese Films: Book analyzing the themes, psychological content, technical quality and propaganda value of 20 Japanese films that were made during World War II. Produced for the U.S. government to gain knowledge on the impact of Japanese filmmaking on psychological warfare. 

Propaganda Analysis; a study of inferences made from Nazi propaganda in World War II: Analyzes how the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of the United States used Nazi propaganda during World War II to infer information critical to Allied policy. 

Soviet Propaganda: A case study of the Middle East conflict: The study focuses on the period from 1948 to 1975, examining how the Soviet Union used information to promote its anti-imperialist agenda and build relationships with Arab nations, though this often clashed with the rise of pan-Arab nationalism. 

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