TY - BOOK ID - 78146472 TI - A battle for neutral Europe : British cultural propaganda during the Second World War PY - 2013 SN - 1283874008 1441153306 9781441153302 9781441143365 144114336X 9781472575319 1472575318 1441199632 9781441199638 9781441199638 9781283874007 PB - London ; New York : Bloomsbury, DB - UniCat KW - Neutrality KW - Propaganda, British KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - British propaganda KW - English propaganda KW - Propaganda, English KW - Neutralism KW - International relations KW - Buffer states KW - Intervention (International law) KW - Isolationism KW - Nonalignment KW - Prize law KW - Region of war KW - Unneutral service KW - War, Maritime (International law) KW - War (International law) KW - History KW - Propaganda. KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78146472 AB - A Battle for Neutral Europe describes and analyses the forgotten story of the British government's cultural propaganda organization, the British Council, in its campaign to win the hearts and minds of people in neutral Europe during the Second World War. The book draws on a range of previously unused material from archives from across Europe and private memoirs to provide a unique insight into the work of the leading British artists, scientists, musicians and other cultural figures who traveled to Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey at great personal risk to promote British life and thought in ER -