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Make club book selection a snap by adding possible club picks, then vote anonymously on your favorites. Most people forget how young these officers and soldiers are, an officer can be as young as 23 years old, a soldier even younger. When books went to war is the inspiring story of the armed services editions, and a. The stories that helped us win world war ii houghton mifflin harcourt, 2014 shows how publishers, book sellers and librarians who viewed books as weapons in the war of ideas mobilized to launch a program that distributed more than 122 million small, lightweight paperbacks to troops overseas. When books went to war is an engaging read that transports us back to a difficult time in our history.
If not, you can visit the publisher or authors website and find online reading guides. This book may be about war, but it is, like most of these books, mostly about people. Brown bag book club when books went to war by molly. The city of lights for six months at the end of the war to end all wars was the gathering point for peacemakers from around the world. Molly guptill mannings when books went to war is that and more. I was out of reading material after a flight was delayed in minneapolis, so i picked it up off the rack. Molly guptill manning explores their history in when books went to war. While the mainstream media tends to celebrate only books from the left, the conservative book club has provided a muchneeded resource for readers interested in conservative politics and conservative values. Oct 27, 2015 when books went to war is a thoroughly engaging, enlightening, and often uplifting account of americas counterattack against nazi germanys wholesale burning of books. See other ya book club picks im not dying with you tonight. Delve deeper into the books making the charts, and get tips for keeping your reading group engaged.
Its hard for a librarian to resist a book thats about, the inspiring story of an army of librarians, 120 million special paperbacks, and the authors and books. Brown bag book club when books went to war by molly guptill manning. Germany burned books, with approximately 100,000,000 books destroyed during the war through public conflagrations and the ravages of combat. In telling the story of books going to war, i wanted to use the.
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Its going to feel weird reading a book about a german general in wwii but for rommel we must make an exception. When books went to war goodreads meet your next favorite book. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to american troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. Molly guptill manning here are a few questions to get a discussion started. The volumes grew out of the victory book campaigns that the american library association sponsored in the. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.
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