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When Books Went to War Lib/E: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II


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About the Book

When America entered World War II in 1941, we 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 twenty 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. Comprising 1,200 different titles of every imaginable type, these paperbacks were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field hospitals, and on long bombing flights. They wrote to the authors, many of whom responded to every letter. They helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity. They made Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, into a national icon. When Books Went to War is an inspiring story for history buffs and book lovers alike.

About the Author :
Molly Guptill Manning is the author of the New York Times bestseller When Books Went to War as well as The Myth of Ephraim Tutt. She has published articles in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. She was a supervisory staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City and is currently an associate professor at New York Law School. Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.

Review :
"[An] uplifting account of America's counterattack against Nazi Germany's wholesale burning of books...I was enthralled and moved." -- "Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried" "[A] delightful history of a little-known aspect of the war in 1940...Manning's entertaining account will have readers nostalgic for that seemingly distant era when books were high priority." -- "Publishers Weekly" "A careful account of what it took--a lot--to ensure that US fighting men had the right stuff to read." -- "USA Today" "A fresh perspective on the trials of war and the power of books." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "A thrilling and concise history of World War II featuring the written word." -- "Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author" "Dunne...depicts a wide range of voices...[and] a spot-on German accent eerily laced with Nazi evil. This audio is perfect for different generations of readers." -- "Booklist (audio review)" "Highly readable and extremely appealing." -- "Library Journal" "Illuminates a dusty slice of WWII history that most of us know nothing about." -- "Entertainment Weekly (Grade A)" "Manning has scoured archives to retrieve soldiers' touching accounts of the therapeutic, life-saving influence of stories that took their minds away from daily horrors." -- "Booklist (starred review)" "This is the beautiful story of a great, nearly forgotten chapter in our history. In addition to sending men, bombers, and rifles overseas to win World War II, America sent books--filling the bored hours that separate war's terrors, helping give purpose to the fight, and shaping the taste of generations. What a wonderful thing." -- "Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away" "While re-telling the history of the war, Manning threads through the impact that books had in fighting the Nazis." -- "Amazon.com"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781481522120
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 277 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1481522124
  • Publisher Date: 02 Dec 2014
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
  • Width: 163 mm


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