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When Books Went to War and the GI Spirit
Newsday reviews Molly Guptill Manning’s When Books Went to War detailing how Armed Services Editions helped U S soldiers in Europe and the Pacific access literature. The book traces army libraries, publisher cooperation, wartime paper limits, and a diverse ASE catalog from Graham Greene to Betty Smith, reflecting morale, propaganda concerns, and reader demand.
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U.S
Europe
Pacific
Molly Guptill Manning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
New York
France
Guadalcanal
ASE
Armed Services Editions
Guptill
Manning
Hemingway
America
American Library Association
Army Special Services Division
Malcolm Johnson
Doubleday
Pocket Books
Philip van Doren Stern
Council On Books
Graham Greene
Herman Melville
James Thurber
Katherine Anne Porter
Betty Smith
Brooklyn