Book Read Free

When Books Went to War

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by Molly Guptill Manning

[>] As of February 1, 1945: Stanley Frank, “The G.I.’s Reject Education,”Saturday Evening Post, August 18, 1945, p. 20.

  [>] “understatement of the decade”: Altschuler and Blumin, The GI Bill, 78.

  [>] “has no patience for”: Frank, “The G.I.’s Reject Education,” 20, 101–2.

  [>] “I would rather have had”: Pvt. G. H., “Bill of Rights,” in “Mail Call,”Yank, the Army Weekly (British ed.), February 18, 1945, pp. 18–19.

  [>] Congress enhanced the law: “Discharged Veterans,”Monthly Labor Review 62, no. 4 (April 1946), 595.

  [>] pocket-sized booklet: Going Back to Civilian Life, WD Pamphlet 21–4 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945).

  [>] Librarians once again rose: Margaret Fulmer, “For the Returning Service Man,”American Library Association Bulletin 39, no. 6 (June 1945), 197–200.

  [>] Between August 1945: Altschuler and Blumin, The GI Bill, 83, 95.

  [>] turned out in droves: Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 62.

  [>] Over the course: Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,’” 887, 889.

  [>] Damned Average Raisers: Altschuler and Blumin, The GI Bill, 95.

  [>] “one priceless quality”: Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens, 71.

  [>] “heartening sign”: Altschuler and Blumin, The GI Bill, 95.

  [>] “Legalized segregation denied”: Loss, “‘The Most Wonderful Thing,’” 889.

  [>] “back to the kitchen”: Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens, 147–48.

  [>] “If ‘Editions for the Armed Services’”: Bruce Bliven, “Books for Soldiers,”New Republic, April 9, 1945.

  [>] “the best read army”: Clip Boutell, “Authors Are Like People,”New York Post, April 19, 1945.

  [>] “I found that a lot of them”: “Armed Services Editions Excerpts from Letters Received by the Center for the Book from Authors,” Library of Congress.

  [>] Before the war: David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson, eds., A History of the Book in America, vol. 5 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 42–45.

  Afterword

  [>] more than 100 million: Jonathan Rose, The Holocaust and the Book (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), 1.

  Index

  American Booksellers Association, [>]

  American Civil War, [>]

  American Legion, [>]

  American Library Association (ALA), [>], [>]–[>]

  American Red Cross, [>], [>]

  American Women’s Voluntary Services, [>]

  Areopagitica, [>]

  Armed Services Editions (ASEs), [>]

  British troops, [>]–[>]

  censorship, [>]–[>]

  cost, [>]–[>]

  criticisms of, [>]–[>]

  discontinuation, [>]

  employment, [>]–[>]

  fan letters, [>]–[>]

  fifth columnists, [>]–[>]

  formatting, [>]–[>]

  media praise, [>]–[>]

  postwar production, [>]–[>]

  prevalence, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  print runs, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  printing errors, [>]–[>]

  reading in battle, [>]–[>]

  requests for increased output, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  shortage of new titles, [>]–[>]

  Title V impact, [>], [>]

  title requests, [>]–[>]

  title selection, [>]–[>]

  titles banned in Europe, [>]–[>]

  “trashy” book requests, [>]–[>]

  Army librarians and VBC, [>]

  Army Library Section, [>]–[>]

  Army Morale Branch, [>]

  Army quartermaster, [>]

  Army Special Services Division, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  D-day, [>]–[>]

  Pacific theater, [>], [>]–[>]

  redeployment, [>]

  Art, German, [>]–[>]

  Assignment: U.S.A., [>]–[>]

  Axis Sally, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  B-29 bombers, [>]–[>]

  The Battle Is the Payoff, [>]

  Battle of Savo Island, [>]

  Beard, Charles, [>], [>]

  Bebelplatz, [>], [>], [>]

  A Bell for Adano, [>]

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, [>], [>], [>]

  Berle, Adolf A., [>]–[>]

  Berlin book burning, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bernstein, Walter, [>]

  The Blitz, [>]–[>]

  Bolte, Charles, [>]–[>]

  Book burnings, [>]–[>]

  Book Publishers Bureau, [>]

  Books

  German book bans, [>]

  hardcovers, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  postwar military needs, [>]–[>]

  prewar reading habits, [>]

  reintroduction in Europe, [>]–[>]

  therapeutic effect, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  See also individual book titles and authors

  Boston book bans, [>]–[>]

  Boutell, Clarence, [>]–[>]

  Bowen, Catherine Drinker, [>], [>]

  Britain, [>], [>], [>]

  publishing industry, [>]–[>]

  Brown v. Board of Education, [>]

  B-29 bombers, [>]–[>]

  Carlisle, Kitty, [>]

  Censorship (American), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Chicken Every Sunday, [>]–[>], [>]

  Coles, Robert M., [>]

  Collection drives, [>]–[>]

  Commencement day book collections, [>]

  Connor, John, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Conscription, [>]–[>]

  Council on Books in Wartime, [>]–[>]

  ASEs. See Armed Services Editions (ASEs)

  books as weapons, [>]–[>]

  censorship fight, [>]–[>]

  creation of, [>]–[>]

  “Imperative” book program, [>]–[>]

  postwar, [>]–[>]

  radio programs, [>]–[>]

  Victory Book Campaign, [>]–[>]

  Day of German Art, [>]

  D-day, [>]–[>]

  ASEs, [>]–[>], [>]

  battle plans, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  casualties, [>]

  marshaling areas, [>]–[>]

  Omaha Beach, [>]–[>]

  postponed, [>]–[>]

  prayer, [>]

  Utah Beach, [>]–[>]

  Death, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Demobilization, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Doubleday, Doran & Co., [>]

  Dreiser, Theodore, [>]

  DuBois, Isabel, [>], [>]

  complaints to council, [>]–[>]

  opposition to VBC, [>]

  The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, [>]

  Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, [>]

  Einstein, Albert, [>], [>]

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Evans, Maurice, [>]

  Ewen, David, [>]

  Farrar & Rinehart, [>], [>], [>]

  Farrar, John, [>]

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, [>]

  Forever Amber, [>]–[>], [>]

  Fort Benning, [>]

  Fort McClellan, [>], [>]

  France, [>]

  books banned by Germany, [>]

  defeat by Nazis, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  German radio propaganda, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Frick, Wilhelm, [>]

  Fussell, Paul, [>]

  Gannett, Lewis, [>]–[>]

  GI, anonymity of, [>]–[>]

  GI Bill, [>]–[>]

  African Americans, [>]–[>]

  education enrollment rate, [>]–[>]

  employment, [>], [>]–[>]

  initial failure of, [>]

  publicity for, [>]–[>]

  wartime book programs, [>]–[>]

  women, [>]–[>]

  Gillars, Mildred, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Goebbels, Joseph, [>], [
>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Goodman, Benny, [>]

  The Great Gatsby, [>]

  Green, Theodore, [>]–[>]

  Grynszpan, Herschel, [>]

  Guadalcanal, [>]–[>]

  “The Gutenberg Address,” [>]–[>]

  Hargrove, Marion, [>]

  Heine, Heinrich, [>]–[>]

  Hemingway, Ernest, [>], [>]

  Hepburn, Katharine, [>]

  Hersey, John, [>], [>]

  Hershey, Lewis B., [>]–[>]

  Hiroshima, [>]

  Hitler, Adolf, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Hospitals, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Hunnewell, Stanley P., [>]

  Ingersoll, Ralph, [>]

  Into the Valley, [>]

  Ironbottom Sound, [>]

  Isenstadt, Abraham, [>]

  Iwo Jima, [>]–[>]

  Johnson, Malcolm, [>], [>]

  Keller, Helen, [>]–[>]

  Kimbrough, Emily, [>]

  Klopfer, Donald, [>]

  Kristallnacht, [>]–[>]

  Lavender, David, [>]

  Letters home, [>]–[>], [>]

  Lewis, Sinclair, [>]

  Librarians, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Libraries, reorganization in Europe, [>]–[>]

  Library of Burned Books, [>], [>]

  Lippmann, Walter, [>]

  Loizeaux, Marie, [>]–[>]

  London, Jack, [>], [>]

  Lucas, Scott, [>]

  Ludwig, Emil, [>]

  MacInnes, Helen, [>]–[>]

  Magazine service, [>]–[>]

  Mail, [>]–[>], [>]

  Mann, Heinrich, [>]

  Mann, Thomas, [>], [>]

  Marx, Chico, [>]

  Marx, Karl, [>]

  Massey, Raymond, [>]

  Mauldin, Bill, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  McCormick, Anne O’Hare, [>]

  Mead, James, [>]

  Mein Kampf, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Menefee, Selden, [>], [>]–[>]

  Merrill’s Marauders, [>]

  Milam, Carl, [>]

  Minton, Melville, [>]

  Morale, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  books, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  D-day, [>]–[>]

  GI Bill, [>]

  magazines, [>]–[>]

  Pacific theater, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  redeployment, [>]–[>]

  Morgan Library, [>]

  Morley, Christopher, [>]

  Munson, Edward, [>]

  Nagasaki, [>]

  National Defense Book Campaign (NDBC), [>], [>]–[>]

  Nazi Germany, [>]

  banned book lists, [>]

  book burnings, [>]–[>]

  books for postwar university, [>]

  cultural purgings in Europe, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  cultural redefinition in Germany, [>]–[>], [>]

  Night of the Broken Glass, [>]–[>]

  New York Library Association, [>], [>]

  New York Public Library, [>]

  New Yorker, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Newsweek Battle Baby, [>]–[>]

  Night of the Broken Glass, [>]–[>]

  North African Front, [>]–[>]

  Norton, William Warder, [>]

  Nuremberg, [>]–[>]

  Oakes, George, [>]–[>]

  Ogden, Archibald, [>]

  attitude toward banned books, [>]

  Title V, [>], [>]

  Okinawa, [>], [>]

  Omaha Beach, [>]–[>]

  One Man’s Meat, [>], [>]–[>]

  One World, [>]–[>]

  Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, [>]

  Overseas Editions, [>]–[>]

  Pacific theater, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Palmer, Gretta, [>]–[>]

  Paperback books, [>]

  British paperback trade, [>]–[>]

  postwar, [>], [>]

  prewar, [>]–[>]

  wartime reliance on, [>]–[>]

  Pearl Harbor, [>]

  People on Our Side, [>]–[>]

  Pocket Books, Inc., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Porter, Katherine Anne, [>]–[>]

  Post Yarns, [>]

  Postell, Paul E., [>]

  POWs, [>]–[>]

  Propaganda, [>]–[>]

  American, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  D-day, [>], [>]

  France, [>]–[>]

  German radio and the U.S., [>], [>], [>]

  Japan, [>]

  Psychological warfare, [>]–[>], [>]

  Pyle, Ernie, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Queen Victoria, [>]–[>]

  Radio, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  American book programs, [>]–[>]

  Dōmei, [>]

  “The Gutenberg Address,” [>]–[>]

  Reichsradio, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  They Burned the Books, [>]–[>]

  Random House, [>]

  Rationing, [>]–[>]

  paper, [>]–[>], [>]

  Rawlings, Charles, [>]–[>]

  Redeployment, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Reichsradio, [>], [>]–[>]

  Remarque, Erich Maria, [>], [>]

  The Republic, [>], [>], [>]

  Rinehart, Stanley, [>], [>]

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, [>], [>]–[>]

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, [>], [>]

  books, [>]

  D-day prayer, [>]

  death of, [>]

  fourth term, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  GI Bill, [>]–[>]

  rationing, [>]

  Soldier Voting Bill, [>]

  third term, [>]

  VBC donations, [>]

  Victory Book Day, [>]–[>]

  Rosten, Leo, [>]

  Saipan, [>]–[>], [>]

  Sandoz, Mari, [>], [>]

  Saturday Evening Post, [>], [>], [>]

  Saturday Review of Literature, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Save the Children Federation, [>]

  Schnitzler, Arthur, [>]

  Selective Training and Service Act, [>]–[>]

  Simon & Schuster, [>], [>]

  Simon, Richard, [>], [>]–[>]

  Sinclair, Upton, [>]

  Skinner, Cornelia Otis, [>]

  Sledge, E. B., [>]

  Sloane, William, [>], [>]

  Slogum House, [>]

  Smith, Betty, [>]

  relationship with servicemen, [>]–[>]

  “Who Died?,” [>]–[>]

  Smith, Kate, [>]

  Smith, Lillian, [>]–[>], [>]

  Snow, Edgar, [>]–[>]

  Soldier Voting Bill, [>]–[>]

  complicating absentee voting, [>]–[>]

  See also Title V to Soldier Voting Act

  Spaulding, Thomas Marshall, [>]–[>]

  Stars and Stripes, [>], [>]–[>]

  banned under Title V, [>]

  Stegner, Wallace, [>]

  Stern, Philip Van Doren, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  shortage of new titles, [>]–[>]

  Title V, [>]–[>]

  Strachey, Lytton, [>]

  Strange Fruit, [>]–[>]

  banned in Boston, [>]–[>]

  postal restrictions on, [>]–[>]

  requested by servicemen, [>]–[>], [>]

  Taft, Charles P., [>], [>]–[>]

  opposition to VBC renewal, [>]–[>]

  Taft, Robert A., [>]–[>]

  amendment to Title V, [>]–[>]

  Taylor, Edmond, [>]

  Taylor, Rosemary, [>]–[>]

  Tell the Folks Back Home, [>]

  They Burned the Books, [>]–[>]

  They Were Expendable, [>]–[>]

  Thompson, H. Stahley, [>], [>]

  The Three Musketeers, [>]

  Time Pony Edition, [>]–[>]

  Times Hall, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Title V to Soldier Voting Act, [>]–[>]

  amendment, [>]–[>]

&n
bsp; Army books withdrawn, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  banned books, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  banned movies, [>]

  banned newspapers, [>]

  fight for repeal, [>]–[>]

  media backlash against, [>]–[>]

  Toguri, Iva, [>]

  Tokyo Rose, [>]

  Training camps, [>]–[>]

  entertainment, [>]

  unpreparedness, [>]–[>]

  Trautman, Raymond L., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  1945 book crisis, [>]–[>], [>]

  Title V, [>]–[>]

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  United Service Organizations (USO), [>], [>]–[>

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