When Books Went to War
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[>] 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), [>], [>]–[>