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Broadsides and Bayonets

by Carl Berger
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781616465407
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Coachwhip Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Coachwhip Publications
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 322
  • Original Price: USD 19.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 472 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Military / Intelligence & Espionage

Broadsides and Bayonets (1961) is the absorbing study of the techniques of Revolutionary propaganda. Carl Berger relates here the fascinating story of the propaganda and subversion activities of both factions during the American Revolutionary War. The writings of the period, the archives and literature, are filled with intriguing references to "secret arts and machinations," some relating to incidents familiar to students of American history, others touching on events long since forgotten. This book for the first time brings these known and little-known events into perspective, examining in a single, authoritative narrative their role and importance.

In his Preface to Broadsides and Bayonets, Mr. Berger explains the great effort which was made by the supporters of both causes toward effective and widespread psychological warfare. "During its eight-year progression the war gave birth to many divisive operations, well planned in some instances and often involving minority groups on the scene as well as Englishmen and Americans. Drawn into the colonial struggle were French Canadians and German mercenaries, Indian tribes and Negro slaves, Irishmen, and other peoples."

Propaganda activities were not confined to the actual wartime period by any means. The newspaper and pamphlet attacks on the British started well before 1776 and brought to a fighting edge the spirits of the American colonists. Each major protagonist planned intelligent and extensive campaigns to subvert and weaken the enemy camp. "It was a provocative war in which the atrocity story, kidnappings, false rumors, and bribery stirred the people. It was a conflict which inevitably spread to Europe and there engaged the talents of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, in America's first organized overseas propaganda campaign."

This edition includes an additional article, 'The Secret Service of the Revolution, ' by Henry P. Johnston (1882).

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