The Book at war : : how Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Pettegree, Andrew, 002.09 Pe
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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Pittsfield Adult Books, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / General / Pettegree, Andrew	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	002.09 Pe	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Profile Books Ltd"--Copyright page.
Building the fighting nation -- The mobilisation of knowledge -- The home front -- Books for the boys -- The bomber will always get through -- 1945-89: War as peace.
A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) illumination of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace. We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath--one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history--for both good and ill. With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power--and the ambivalence--of words at war.

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