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Why it was banned
Arthur Ponsonby's 1928 study of propaganda and official lies during the First World War, banned in New Zealand during the Second World War as potentially demoralising to the war effort. The book is now considered a foundational text on wartime propaganda.
Bans
| Country | Year | Reasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 1940lifted | Political | ||
| Classified as objectionable under the New Zealand Indecent Publications Act 1963. The Act was superseded by the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993; classification status treated as historical. | ||||