Andrew Lycett

Lord Northcliffe’s war of words

According to the Kaiser, it was the British press baron who won the first world war virtually singlehandedly through his newspapers

Lord Northcliffe, portrayed as ‘the Napoleon of Slander’ in the Berlin press, May 1918. [Alamy]

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