Britain was struggling to combat the powerful Nazi propaganda machine which crowed victory and
smeared its enemies. But inside Germany there was one notable voice of dissent from the very
heart of the military machine Der Chef a German whose radio broadcasts skilfully questioned
Nazi doctrine. He had access to high-ranking German military secrets and spoke of internal
rebellion. His listeners included German soldiers and citizens. American officials and even the
President tried to to decipher what it meant for the future of the war. But what these
audiences didn't know was that Der Chef was a fiction a character created by the British
propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer just one player in Delmer's vast counter-propaganda cabaret
a unique weapon in the war. As author Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer's story he is called
into a wartime propaganda effort of his own: the global response to Putin's invasion of
Ukraine. This book is the story of Delmer and his modern-day investigator as they each embark
on their own quest to seduce and inspire the passions of supporters and enemies and to turn
the tide of information wars.
