Clear and persuasive...This book should join the standard volumes on the media and war...and it is recommended for the interested, in and out of academe. The research is impressive, the writing engaging, and the conclusions alter the standard view of the press in the war against Nazi Germany...Perhaps the most important takeaway...is this: Though closely entwined with the military throughout the war by necessity, the press maintained its independence and pushed back
in the name of truth and a free press.
Steven Casey is Professor in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Cautious Crusade: Franklin Roosevelt, American Public Opinion and the War against Nazi Germany (OUP, 2001); Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics and Public Opinion (OUP, 2007); When Soldiers Fall: How Americans Have Confronted Combat Casualties (OUP, 2014); and The War Beat, Pacific:
The American Media at War Against Japan (OUP, 2021).