Tuesday, 4 October 2022

THE PHONEY WAR - VICTORY CARD GAME

The Hereford VBCW is, of course, anything but a "Phoney War". However, inspiration can be derived from the alternative timeline of 1939-1940, when this interesting card game was produced:

The "Victory Card Game". Propaganda can take many forms....

"House Army". Interesting social stereotypes (see the Lieutenant and the Major).
"The Master" is Lord Gort, former CIGS and, from 1939, Commander in Chief
of the British Expeditionary Force in France.

"House Navy". "The Master" is, of course, Winston Churchill
as First Sea Lord.

"House RAF". The cartoonist still seems to be in the biplane era.
"The Master" is Sir Cyril (later 1st Baron) Newall, Marshall of the RAF
and (from 1937) Chief of the Air Staff

"House Home Front". The most interesting from a VBCW point of view -
Air Raid Wardens, police, nurses, land army, drivers, cooks, etc.
 "The Master" is, of course, Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister
 28th May 1937 - 10th May 1940.

The Opposition. Propaganda again....

All that might be needed to convert this "Victory Card Game" from the Phoney War to the Very British Civil War would be a decent caricature of Sir Oswald Mosley, Leader of the BUF:


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