Victory House Press
Victory House Press (1941 - 1945) was a British anti-Facist propaganda press based in Tehran, Iran, during World War II. Victory House was headed the Persianist Dr. Ann Lambton (1912 - 2008). It was founded in the wake of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Iran on 25th August 1941. While it was loosely described as a 'British Cultural Center', the true aim was to sway the hearts and mind of the Iranian population toward the Allied cause. Intentionally, Victory House was based in 'Brown House', formally the German Cultural Center, which was seized in 1941. Victory House established its own press, publishing the Farsi language newspaper Rahbar (Leader) and the English language Tehran Daily News. The organization also issued propagandist pamphlets and broadsides.
Anti-German propaganda mission in Tehran.
افریقا ی شمال ی / [North Africa].
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The only known surviving example of a 1943 propaganda broadside issued in Tehran, Iran, by Victory House - a propaganda arm of the British government operating in Iran during World War II (1939 - 1945). It is part of a series of extraordinary broadsides issued by the pro-British Victory House to sway Iranian political sentiment towards the Allies by promoting a message of inevitable victory. The image here illustrates American, British, and Free French tanks surging towards the fortified northern tip of Tunisia, where Hitler and Mussolini cower as a fleet of British battleships approaches from the sea - imagery representative of the Tunisian Campaign, which, when this was issued early in 1943, had driven the German/Italian Afrika Korps to a last stand. (more details)