This book outlines the origin and growth of information (propaganda) broadcasting by radio - which came to prominence in World War II and the Cold War - and chronicles the technological and engineering achievements that enable long-range broadcasting.

Eur Ing James Wood is a consulting engineer and specialist freelance journalist, having contributed to all the major broadcasting journals.

• Part 1: Birth of a medium


• Chapter 1: The triode and radio telephony


• Chapter 2: Origins of entertainment broadcasting


• Chapter 3: Technological revolution


• Chapter 4: Commercial broadcasting


• Chapter 5: A social tool: birth of the BBC


• Chapter 6: Propaganda: the cradle years, 1927-1938


• Chapter 7: Radio Luxembourg: super power comes to Europe


• Part 2: A weapon of war


• Chapter 8: International broadcasting from 1938 to the early 1960s


• Chapter 9: British censorship and propaganda, 1939-1945


• Chapter 10: German broadcasting under the Nazis


• Chapter 11: US wartime broadcasting


• Chapter 12: Japanese wartime broadcasting


• Chapter 13: Treason by radio


• Chapter 14: Woofferton SW station


• Chapter 15: The Cold War


• Chapter 16: The Voice of America


• Chapter 17: Satellite communications and global broadcasting


• Part 3: Radio as an instrument of foreign policy


• Chapter 18: Developments since 1960


• Chapter 19: The decade of audibility: 1980-1990


• Chapter 20: Technology of the high-power transmitter


• Chapter 21: Broadcasting from the Federal Republic of Germany


• Chapter 22: Scandinavian broadcasting


• Chapter 23: LW and MW international broadcasting


• Chapter 24: Jamming on the short waves


• Chapter 25: 'Speaking peace unto nations': BBC World Service


• Chapter 26: Subversion, propaganda broadcasting and the CIA


• Chapter 27: Second in the world: the USSR


• Chapter 28: Renewed expansion at the Voice of America


• Chapter 29: Commercial giants: French broadcasting


• Chapter 30: Super power in the Arab world


• Chapter 31: Religious broadcasting and propaganda


• Chapter 32: Transmitter sales during the 1980s


• Chapter 33: The future of international AM broadcasting


• Appendix 1: Television, the Gulf War and the future of propaganda


• Appendix 2: Sales of high-power transmitterssince 1991


• Appendix 3: Low-profile transmitters