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

from Stbalbach

I like books. I like books about WWII. And here is a book about books in WWII. What's not to like? It's a short book, but full of interesting things. It's mostly about the Armed Services Editions (ASE) which were small portable paperbacks distributed in the millions to American GIs. It was the fi...

from BookConcierge

While Nazis were burning books in Europe, Americans were trying to get more books distributed to the men fighting in the war. Their first efforts were a massive book drive, collecting about 10 million books to send to various training camps and overseas bases to support military libraries. But th...

from UnderMyAppleTree

During World War II millions of books were distributed to soldiers during a little known part of history that is brought to life in When Books Went to War. Initially libraries, publishers, and the public banded together to collect books in a nationwide Victory Book Campaign, but it soon became ap...

from Itzey

As a retired librarian, I was immediately attracted to this book. Failing to get an advanced copy, I was so intrigued by the subject I immediately placed an order and bought the book.It was a good as I thought it would be. In the short 200 pages of this book I felt like I had traveled with the tr...

from 2wonderY

This recounts the US effort to put reading material into the hands of their servicemen in WW2, and what the effect was on morale and the war in general. I so much liked this book that I started a thread to talk about it and added more research.