The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts The Press and the War
RCC7355
From The Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke
ISBN
9780752494296
Purchase Price
£6.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
September 21, 2016
Publisher
Spellmount, an imprint of The History Press (2013, Stroud, Glos)
Notes
Clarke was a journalist who, by fair means and foul, managed to spend a large part of the war reporting from the Western Front. Later he covered the Irish War of Independence, although by then he had morphed into the UK's first Public Relations Officer. He pioneered the use of propaganda, and his story is certainly germane to the overall picture of the war, running into one of the "spin-off" conflicts which followed the end of the war. We have put the book in the Press category as opposed to the Biography category as it is more relevant.
9780752494296
Purchase Price
£6.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
September 21, 2016
Publisher
Spellmount, an imprint of The History Press (2013, Stroud, Glos)
Notes
Clarke was a journalist who, by fair means and foul, managed to spend a large part of the war reporting from the Western Front. Later he covered the Irish War of Independence, although by then he had morphed into the UK's first Public Relations Officer. He pioneered the use of propaganda, and his story is certainly germane to the overall picture of the war, running into one of the "spin-off" conflicts which followed the end of the war. We have put the book in the Press category as opposed to the Biography category as it is more relevant.
