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title: 'Author of "Outwitting the Hun": Read His Book, Hear His Lecture'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/outwitting-the-hun-lecture-lieut-obrien-1918/
description: A smiling airman in a flying jacket stands in front of a biplane, gripping its propeller, under the headline 'Outwitting the Hun'.
section: Collection
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# Author of "Outwitting the Hun": Read His Book, Hear His Lecture

A smiling airman in a flying jacket stands in front of a biplane, gripping its propeller, under the headline 'Outwitting the Hun'. The text promotes his book and lecture and calls his story 'the Greatest Individual Achievement of the War'. The tell: a personal war record offered as a ticketed attraction, with superlatives ('Wildest Tales of Fiction, Fable, Fancy Outdone') standing in for any account of what the lecture contains.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Author of
"Outwitting the Hun"

READ HIS BOOK-
HEAR HIS LECTURE!

The Wildest Tales of
Fiction, Fable and
Fancy Outdone in
Real Life

LIEUT. O'BRIEN HAS [visible text cuts off here; NARA's title continues:] To Credit The Greatest Individual Achievement Of the War. Under the Exclusive Management of Lee Keedick, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Manager of World's Most Celebrated Lecturers.
```

The text after 'LIEUT. O'BRIEN HAS' is taken from NARA's title because the lower part of the sheet is not in the scan.

[← Our Flags: Beat Germany, Support Every Flag That Opposes Prussianism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-flags-beat-germany-1918/) [Parlano di pace e nascondono il pugnale! (They Talk of Peace and Hide the Dagger!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/parlano-di-pace-nascondono-il-pugnale-borilli-1918/)

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