Free August 29 Webinar: “Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in World War II”
Posted by: Peter Armenti
When the United States entered World War II in 1941, it opposed nations that had banned and burned books. In 1943, the Council on Books in Wartime, working with the War Department, began distributing pocket-size paperback volumes to soldiers in every theater of war. By 1947, approximately 123 million copies of some 1,300 titles in …
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