This beautifully crafted book . . . [is] a terrific tale that couldn't be more timely. - Mark Urban, The Times, the 5 best world affairs books of the year

Both history and a rallying cry . . . an illuminating guide to the nature and possibilities of propaganda. Written with palpable urgency, it cements the author's reputation as one of the leading experts in information warfare [...] it even manages to strike a tentative note of optimism [...] good can prevail of over evil once again. Only, we must all muster our intelligence and creativity. - TLS

Lively and elegant [...]This is Pomerantsev's third book about propaganda (after Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible and This Is Not Propaganda), all vividly reported, well researched and crisply argued. - Times

How to Win an Information War succeeds brilliantly in shedding light on the first question that Pomerantsev sought to answer: namely, what makes people susceptible to the blindness that propaganda can create? But the book's real importance lies in the fact that it ultimately fails to provide the answer to his second question: how might people be induced to break out of it? - Irish Times

How to Win an Information War covers important topics, not least Pomerantsev's reflections on the future of propaganda in a digital world and how the enduring aim of propaganda (to give a sense of belonging) are dark arts being exploited by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in our own era. - Independent

The author notes - just as the reader may do - structural similarities between Hitler's speeches and those made by Trump and Putin . . . Where does that leave us? Most controversially, with a ref