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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.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

©2014

Description:

xv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.--Literature and the war.
Books and reading--20th century.--History--20th century.
Publishers and publishing--20th century.--History--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
War in literature.

Notes:

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

Summary:

"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks, in every theater of war"--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0544535022 (hbk.)
9780544535022 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)884299002

LCCN:

2014033571

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