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Author:

Manning, Molly Guptill, 1980- author.

Title:

When books went to war : the stories that helped us win World War II / Molly Guptill Manning.

Edition:

First Mariner Books edition.

Publisher:

Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subject:

Armed Services editions (Series)--History.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
Books and reading--United States--History--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index.

Contents:

A phoenix will rise -- $85 worth of clothes, but no pajamas -- A landslide of books -- New weapons in the war of ideas -- Grab a book, Joe, and keep goin' -- Guts, valor, and extreme bravery -- Like rain in the desert -- Censorship and FDR's F --- th T -- m -- Germany's surrender and the godforsaken islands -- Peace at last -- Damned average raisers.

Summary:

Chronicles the joint effort of the U.S. government, the publishing industry, and the nation's librarians to boost troop morale during World War II by shipping more than one hundred million books to the front lines for soldiers to read during what little downtime they had.

ISBN:

9780544570405
0544570405

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898052933

Locations:

LHPD057 -- Audubon Public Library (Audubon) — 940.53 MAN

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

SZPC124 -- Kothe Memorial Library (Parkersburg)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

CDPC522 -- Solon Public Library (Solon)