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bookwormmichelle 's review for:
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
by Molly Guptill Manning
I liked this--the author clearly became very passionate about the efforts to provide WWII soldiers with reading material. I knew little of this---I'm not surprised that librarians collected books in the early months of the war, but I did not know about the huge effort to print small flexible paperbacks at low cost for distribution to servicemen. I especially found the efforts to limit or censor what was printed very interesting. Nice little book about a part of the war I knew nothing about. And this is kind of fun--apparently one of the most in-demand titles printed in American Servicemen Editions was . . . A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Wouldn't have guessed that!