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The First World War was a conflict unlike any which had come before it. Industrialization saw the advent of trench warfare and innovation in such forms as U-boats, tanks and advances in automated weaponry. Yet according to Epstein (2000), innovation was not just for the battlefield, but visible in the development of war propaganda, which gave this period the reputation of being the first press agents’ war. There was a new-found need to sway the masses as national morale became increasingly dependent on how swiftly recruits signed up.
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Briffa, H. (2016). Malta in the First World War. In: Walker, J., Declercq, C. (eds) Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550309_11
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