When Books Went to War
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1135 Forbes Parkhill, Troopers West
1136 George Harmon Coxe, Woman at Bay
1137 Ed Fitzgerald, ed., Tales for Males
1138 Robert Standish, The Small General
1139 Ivan T. Sanderson, Caribbean Treasure
1140 Norman V. Carlisle and Frank B. Latham, Miracles Ahead
1141 Clarence E. Mulford, The Bar-20 Three
1142 Mark Van Doren, Shakespeare
1143 Lee R.Steiner, Where Do People Take Their Troubles?
1144 Marquis James, The Cherokee Ship
1145 Christina Stead and William Blake, eds., Modern Women in Love
1146 Wilbur Daniel Steele, That Girl from Memphis
HH-Series, June 1946
1147 John O’Hara, Pal Joey
1148 Joel Sayre, Rackety Rax
1149 George Papashvily and Helen Papashvily, Anything Can Happen
1150 David Ewen, Men of Popular Music
1151 Ogden Nash, Many Long Years Ago
1152 Grace Zaring Stone (Ethel Vance), Winter Meeting
1153 M. M. Musselman, Wheels in His Head
1154 Peter Field, The End of the Trail
1155 Margaret Scherf, The Owl in the Cellar
1156 The Dark Ship and Other Selections from the New Yorker
1157 Clyde Fisher, The Story of the Moon
1158 W. H. B. Kent, The Tenderfoot
1159 Russell Maloney, It’s Still Maloney
1160 Roy Chapman Andrews, Meet Your Ancestors
1161 W. R. Burnett, Tomorrow’s Another Day
1162 Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge, Murder within Murder
1163 Tom Gill, Starlight Pass
1164 Ernest Haycox, Trail Town
1165 Geoffrey Household, The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories
1166 Patricia Wentworth, She Came Back
1167 Walter S. Landis, Your Servant the Molecule
1168 Commander Edward Ellsberg, Treasure Below
1169 William Sloane, The Edge of Running Water
1170 Frank Graham, The New York Yankees
1171 Harold Hart, ed., Top Stuff
1172 J. Roy Stockton, The Gashouse Gang
1173 William Irish, I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes
1174 Peter W. Rainier, Green Fire
1175 B. D. Zevin, ed., Cobb’s Cavalcade
1176 Daphne du Maurier, The King’s General
1177 Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph
1178 Jack Goodman, ed., While You Were Gone
Beginning with the II-Series, the ASEs were printed in smaller batches for occupation troops.
II-Series, July 1946
1179 Ernie Pyle, Last Chapter
1180 John McNulty, Third Avenue, New York
1181 Peter Field, Ravaged Range
1182 Gore Vidal, Williwaw
1183 Will Ermine, Outlaw on Horseback
1184 Luke Short, Coroner Creek
1185 Dorothy Macardle, The Unforeseen
1186 Lucy Cores, Let’s Kill George
1187 C. S. Forester, Lord Hornblower
1188 Alice Campbell, With Bated Breath
1189 Gene Fowler, A Solo in Tom-Toms
1190 Ben Hibbs, ed., The Saturday Evening Post Stories, 1942–1945
JJ-Series, August 1946
1191 Lee Casey, ed., Denver Murders
1192 Curtis Bishop, By Way of Wyoming
1193 Frank Sullivan, A Rock in Every Snowball
1194 Jonathan Stagge, Death’s Old Sweet Song
1195 Rex Beach, The World in His Arms
1196 William MacLeod Raine, Clattering Hoofs
1197 Warren Brown, The Chicago Cubs
1198 Jim Corbett, Man-Eater of Kumaon
1199 Stanley Vestal, Jim Bridger
1200 Ernest K. Gann, Blaze of Noon
1201 Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
1202 Willa Gibbs, Tell Your Sons
KK-Series, September 1946
1203 Thomas Heggen, Mister Roberts
1204 Arthur Sampson, Football Coach
1205 Richard Sale, Benefit Performance
1206 E. E. Halleran, Double Cross Trail
1207 Earl Wilson, Pikes Peek or Bust
1208 William Colt MacDonald, Thunderbird Trail
1209 Vera Caspary, Stranger Than Truth
1210 George Tabori, Companions of the Left Hand
1211 Mary O’Hara, Green Grass of Wyoming
1212 Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley
1213 Wilbur Daniel Steele, The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele
1214 Commander Edward Ellsberg, Under the Red Sea Sun
LL-Series, October 1946
1215 Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock
1216 Max Brand, Mountain Riders
1217 Pat Frank, Mr. Adam
1218 Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Borrowed Brunette
1219 Christopher La Farge, The Sudden Guest
1220 Peter Freuchen, White Man
1221 Jonathan Daniels, Frontier on the Potomac
1222 Stout Rex, The Silent Speaker
1223 Joseph A. Margolies, ed., Strange and Fantastic Stories
1224 Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard, Holdfast Gaines
1225 John P. Marquand, B.F.’s Daughter
1226 John Jennings, The Salem Frigate
MM-Series, November 1946
1227 Ralph G. Martin, Boy from Nebraska
1228 David Stern, Francis
1229 Willis George, Surreptitious Entry
1230 James B. Hendryx, Courage of the North
1231 Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge, Death of a Tall Man
1232 John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus
1233 MacKinlay Kantor, But Look, the Morn
1234 Van Wyck Mason, Saigon Singer
1235 Fred Gipson, Fabulous Empire
1236 Frank Waters, The Colorado
1237 Ed Ainsworth (Edward M.), Eagles Fly West
1238 Inglis Fletcher, Toil of the Brave
NN-Series, December 1946
1239 Les Savage Jr., Treasure of the Brasada
1240 Tom West, Six Gun Showdown
1241 Helen Reilly, The Silver Leopard
1242 Luther Whiteman, The Face of the Clam
1243 William Wister Haines, Command Decision
1244 Arthur Henry Gooden, The Shadowed Trail
1245 Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense
1246 Carter Dickson, My Late Wives
1247 Mildred Walker, The Quarry
1248 James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific
1249 Holger Cahill, Look South to the Polar Star
1250 Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream
OO-Series, January 1947
1251 Nelson C. Nye, The Barber of Tubac
1252 Dana Faralla, The Magnificent Barb
1253 Fred Feldkamp, ed., Mixture for Men
1254 Wayne D. Overholser, Buckaroo’s Code
1255 Pat McGerr, Pick Your Victim
1256 Michael Blankfort, The Widow-Makers
1257 Evan Evans, The Border Bandit
1258 William Gilmore Beymer, The Middle of Midnight
1259 Clyde Brion Davis, Jeremy Bell
1260 Frederick G. Lieb, The Detroit Tigers
1261 Garland Roark, Wake of the Red Witch
1262 Paul I. Wellman, The Walls of Jericho
PP-Series, February 1947
1263 Max Brand, Valley of Vanishing Men
1264 Peter Field, Gambler’s Gold
1265 Herman Wouk, Aurora Dawn
1266 Gordon Merrick, The Strumpet Wind
1267 Ernest Haycox, Long Storm
1268 Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement
1269 Ngaio Marsh, Final Curtain
1270 Hilda Lawrence, Death of a Doll
1271 Frederick G. Lieb, The Boston Red Sox
1272 Max Manus, 9 Lives Before Thirty
1273 Elliot Arnold, Blood Brother
1274 David L. Cohn, This Is the Story
QQ-Series, March 1947
1275 Curtis Bishop, Shadow Range
1276 Anthony Thorne, So Long at the Fair
1277 Mark Layton, Silver Spurs
1278 Edward A. Herron, Alaska: Land of Tomorrow
1279 Manning Coles, With Intent to Deceive
1280 John Dickson Carr, The Sleeping Sphinx
1281 Robert Standish, Mr. On Loong
1282 Marguerite Eyssen, Go-Devil
1283 Shirley Graham, There Was Once a Slave
1284 C. W. Grafton, My Name Is Christopher Nagel
1285 John Myers Myers, The Wild Yazoo
1286 Evelyn Wells, Jed Blaine’s Woman
RR-Series, April 1947
1288 Bliss Lomax, Trail Dust
1289 David Dodge, How Green Was My Father
1290 Will Ermine, The Drifting Kid
1291 Patrick Quentin, Puzzle for Pilgrims
1292 Kelley Roos, Ghost of a Chance
1293 Richard Lockridge and Frances Lockridge, Think of Death
1294 Zane Grey, Valley of Wild Horses
1295 Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman, Mrs. Mike
1296 Annemarie Ewing, Little Gate
1297 A. B. Guthrie Jr., The Big Sky
1298 Raymond T. Bond, ed., Famous Stories of Code & Cipher
SS-Series, May 1947
1299 Allan R. Bosworth, Hang and Rattle
1300 Peter Field, Trail from Needle Rock
1301 George Milburn, Flannigan’s Folly
1302 Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Fan-Dancer’s Horse
1303 Francis Rufus Bellamy, Blood Money
1304 William Colt MacDonald, Master of the Mesa
1305 Arthur Loveridge, Tomorrow’s a Holiday
1306 John Jennings, Boston: Cradle of Liberty
1307 Michael Leigh, Comrade Forest
1308 Robert McLaughlin, The Side of the Angels
1309 Herbert Krause, The Thresher
1310 Idwal Jones, Vermilion
TT-Series, June 1947
1311 Max Brand, The False Rider
1312 Kathleen Moore Knight, The Blue Horse of Taxco
1313 Craig Rice, ed., Los Angeles Murders
1314 Elliot Merrick, Passing By
1315 Richard Phenix, On My Way Home
1316 Bob Feller, Strikeout Story
1317 Budd Schulberg, The Harder They Fall
1318 Charles E. Gillham, Raw North
1319 Natalie Anderson Scott, The Story of Mrs. Murphy
1320 Thomas B. Costain, The Moneyman
1321 Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes
1322 Ernie Pyle, Home Country
2002–3
The Armed Services Editions reappeared in 2002 and 2003, when Andrew Carroll’s Legacy Project distributed 100,000 copies of seven titles to Americans serving in the armed forces around the world. These modern ASEs had the same dimensions and appearance as the 1940s ASEs.
Allen Mikaelian, Medal of Honor
William Shakespeare, Henry V
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Andrew Carroll, ed., War Letters
Christopher Buckley, Wry Martinis
Dr. John A. Gable, ed., The Man in the Arena
Geraldine McCaughrean, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Notes
Introduction
[>] “Were you ever”: Letter from D. C. to “Mrs. Jones,” May 20, 1944, Council on Books in Wartime Records, 1942–1947, Coll. No. MC038, 20th Century Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library (hereinafter Council Records).
[>] “have breakfast with”: Letter from “somewhere in the Philippines,” February 2, 1945, Council Records.
[>] “God-damned infantry”: Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War (New York: Pocket Books, 1944), 255.
[>] ducks in a shooting: James J. Fahey, Pacific War Diary (New York: Zebra Books, 1963), 63.
[>] “out of uniform”: Letter from B. T. C., October 17, 1944, Council Records.
[>] “To heave one”: Letter from “Sidney” from “somewhere at sea” (undated), Council Records.
1. A Phoenix Will Rise
[>] Even the misty: Frederick T. Birchall, “Nazi Book-Burning Fails to Stir Berlin,”New York Times, May 11, 1933.
[>] “the Jew, who is powerful”: Ibid.
[>] “literary rascality”: Ibid.
[>] Goebbels oversaw: A. J. Ryder, Twentieth-Century Germany: From Bismarck to Brandt (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973), 357–58.
[>] “Jewish intellectualism”: Birchall, “Nazi Book-Burning Fails to Stir Berlin.”
[>] ninety-three additional: Jan-Pieter Barbian, The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany: Books in the Media Dictatorship, trans. Kate Sturge (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), 23–25.
[>] one hundred massive volumes: “100 Volumes Burned in Munich,”New York Times, May 11, 1933.
[>] “as you watch”: “Bibliocaust,”Time, May 22, 1933.
[>] “really clean”: Jonathan Rose, ed., The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 17.
[>] among the authors: Writers’ War Board List of Banned Authors, Council Records.
[>] “History has taught”: “Helen Keller Warns Germany’s Students; Says Burning of Books Cannot Kill Ideas,”New York Times, May 10, 1933.
[>] “noblest books produced”: “Nazis Pile Books for Bonfires Today,”New York Times, May 10, 1933.
[>]“had never yet destroyed”: “H. G. Wells Scores Nazis as ‘Louts,’”New York Times, September 22, 1933.
[>]Library of Burned: “Paris Library for Banned Books Opens on First Anniversary of Nazi Bonfire,”New York Times, May 11, 1934.
[>] chief glory: Editorial, “Enlightenment,”New York Times, April 30, 1933.
[>] “such an exhibition”: “Book-Burning Day,”New York Times, May 11, 1933.
[>] “bibliocaust”: “Bibliocaust,”Time, May 22, 1933.
[>] state-sanctioned reading: Abraham Foxman, introduction to Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Manheim (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), xxi.
[>] The führer’s involvement: Steven Kasher, “The Art of Hitler,”October 59 (Winter 1992), 52, 65.
[>] “everything concerning”: “Nazis Pile Books for Bonfires,”New York Times.
[>] vacancies ran: Ryder, Twentieth-Century Germany, 364.
[>] exploited radio: Kasher, “The Art of Hitler.”
[>] wielded enormous power: Richard Lucas, Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany (Philadelphia: Casemate, 2010), 46.
[>] banned eighteen categories: Christopher P. Loss, “Reading Between Enemy Lines: Armed Services Editions and World War II,”Journal of Military History 67, no. 3 (July 2003), 817.
[>] books to people: Lucas, Axis Sally, 53.
[>] violent anti-Jewish: “Berlin Raids Reply to Death of Envoy,”New York Times, November 10, 1938.
[>] By the following day: Otto D. Tolischus, “Nazis Defend Wave of Terror,”New York Times, November 12, 1938; Lucas, Axis Sally, 53.
[>] “openly sanctioned”: Tolischus, “Nazis Defend Wave of Terror.”
[>] Newspapers were flooded: “American Press Comment on Nazi Riots,”New York Times, November 12, 1938.
[>] Germany hired: Edmund Taylor, The Strategy of Terror (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940), 70, 45.
[>] similarly destroying: Lisa Sergio, “The Importance of Interpreting America,”American Library Association Bulletin 35, no. 9 (October 1941), 486.
[>] On June 17, 1940: Guido Enderis, “Ceremony Is Brief,”New York Times, June 22, 1940.
[>] After the armistice: “Berlin to Receive the Armistice Car,”New York Times, June 22, 1940.
[>] Once a nation: Loss, “Reading Between Enemy Lines,” 818.
[>] Libraries in occupied: Flora B. Ludington, “Books and the Sword—Symbols of Our Time,”American Library Association Bulletin 37, no. 5 (May 1943
), 151.
[>] H. G. Wells’s Library: “Events Connected with the Burning of the Books,” 3, Council Records.
[>] “There are two”: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, The Making of Tomorrow (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942), 1.
[>] For eighteen hours: Cabell Phillips, “War of the Air Waves,”New York Times, December 28, 1941.
[>] American expatriates: Lucas, Axis Sally, 58.
[>] Germany’s broadcasts: Phillips, “War of the Air Waves.”
[>] “the destruction of”: “National Defense and the Library,”American Library Association Bulletin 35, no. 1 (January 1941), 5.
[>] In the words ofone librarian: Emily Miller Danton, “Victory Begins at Home,”American Library Association Bulletin 36, no. 9 (September 1941), 535. Emily Miller Danton, “Victory Begins at Home,” American Library Association Bulletin 36, no. 9 (September 1941), 535.
[>] “arise victoriously”: Alfred Kantorowicz, “The Burned Books Still Live,”New York Times, May 7, 1944.
2. $85 Worth of Clothes, but No Pajamas
[>] “In all phases”: “Keep Your Men Informed,”What the Soldier Thinks, no. 7 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. War Department, 1944), 6–7 (quoting Basic Field Manual 21–50, p. 29).
[>] Gallup poll: Hadley Cantril, “Impact of the War on the Nation’s Viewpoint,”New York Times, June 2, 1940.
[>] “The most powerful”: “To Defend America,”New York Times, June 7, 1940.
[>] “Two worlds”: “Two Worlds,”Life, December 23, 1940, p. 14.
[>] With an army: John Alden Jamieson, Books for the Army: The Army Library Service in the Second World War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1950), 55.
[>] President Roosevelt reminded: Charles Hurd, “Need of Men Vital,”New York Times, August 3, 1940.
[>] Under this legislation: “The Draft: How It Works,”Time, September 23, 1940.
[>] In New York: “Only Two Are Arrested, Though 991,000 Register,”New York Times, October 17, 1940.
[>] “Land had to”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; the Home Front in World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 217.