LEADER 00000nam 2200385 i 4500 001 sky264863973 003 SKY 005 20141231201033.0 008 140924s2014 mauafo e b 001 0 eng 010 2014033571 020 9780544535022 020 0544535022 040 |dSKYRV|erda|dUtOrBLW 082 00 028/.90973 092 028.9|bMAN 100 1 Manning, Molly Guptill,|d1980-|eauthor. 245 10 When books went to war :|bthe stories that helped us win World War II /|cMolly Guptill Manning. 246 30 Stories that helped us win World War II 246 30 Stories that helped us win World War 2 264 1 Boston :|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c[2014] 264 4 |c©2014 300 xv, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, photographs ;|c22 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent. 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 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. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xLiterature and the war. 650 0 Books and reading|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Publishers and publishing|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 American literature|y20th century|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 War in literature.
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