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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading

Pettegree, Andrew

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1541604342
ISBN13: 9781541604346
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

A magisterial (Sunday Times) history 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.

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