Night Waves - 03/10/2007

As a new exhibition of wartime posters opens at the Imperial War Museum, Rana Mitter explores the politically charged history of advertising at war. When does a government publicity campaign turn into a propaganda drive? From General Kitchener's famous pointing finger in World War I, right up to anti-nuclear protest art in the 1980s, the visually arresting poster has been on the frontline of the battle for hearts and minds.