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Book Synopsis**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**
WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020
A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
''Quietly frightening.'' Guardian
''Essential reading.'' Irish Times
''Consistently chilling.'' Herald
''Shocking and entertaining.'' Daily Telegraph
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war.
We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy but our sense of what those words even mean.
As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissid