A review by magnusbe
Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss

4.0

A good thing about this book is that it doesn't spend much time on each of the objects lost or destroyed. Taking in the destruction of libraries and culture is soulcrushing, and when Peiss writes in more general terms it is easier to take in the issues of ownership and logistics etc.

The book is most interesting when dealing with the recovery and rescue of the stolen an lost books and libraries. The part about intelligence services buying books and other publications was maybe more new to me, but also a bit dull.