Klaudiusz BobowskiThe British Council and Poland in the 1940s – Cultural Propaganda

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„Dr. Klaudiusz Bobowski’s book on the British propaganda booklets of the 1940s concerns an important part of the historical and sociological background of World War II. The British Council booklets were meant to be read by Polish military personnel in the British armed forces as an introduction of sorts to the culture and the civilization of Britain. At the same time the booklets were in many ways subject to biases and as such furnish Bobowski with many examples of what the British political and cultural discourse was at the time. The most striking of those examples is perhaps the complete absence of the one figure who, it would seem, could most perfectly connect the British and the Polish cultural horizon, namely Joseph Conrad.