When Books Went to War
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U.S. Foreign Policy, [>]
U.S. Office of War Information (OWI), [>]–[>]
Utah Beach, [>]–[>]
VBC. See Victory Book Campaign
V-E Day, [>]
Veit, Ivan, [>]
Victory Book Campaign (VBC), [>]
New York Public Library, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
1942 book collection numbers, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
1943 campaign, [>]–[>]
1943 renewal, [>]–[>]
publishers’ donations, [>]–[>], [>]
servicemen’s reaction, [>]
termination, [>]–[>]
unsuitable books, [>]–[>]
Victory Book Day, [>]–[>]
V-J Day, [>]–[>]
vom Rath, Ernst, [>]
Voting, [>]–[>]
WAC Magazine Kit, [>]–[>]
War Book Panel, [>]
War declared, [>]
War of ideas, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Warren, Althea, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Waste paper drive, [>]–[>], [>]
White, E. B., [>], [>]
Wells, H. G., [>]
White, W. L., [>]–[>]
“Who Died?,” [>]–[>]
Willkie, Wendell, [>], [>]–[>]
Winsor, Kathleen, [>]–[>]
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVEs), [>]–[>]
Women’s Army Corps (WACs), [>]–[>]
World War I, [>]
Army libraries, [>]
German defeat, [>]
Yank, the Army Weekly, [>], [>]
Yankee from Olympus, [>], [>], [>]
YMCA, [>], [>]
YMCA War Prisoners’ Aid division, [>]–[>]
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Frontispiece: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Book burning: Mary Evans Picture Library / Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo. Library rally: Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Althea Warren: Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Kate Smith: © Corbis. Eleanor Roosevelt: © Corbis. Give More Books: Author’s collection. Bus passes: Author’s collection. Penn Station girl: © Corbis. Shakespeare: © Corbis. Malcolm Johnson: Author’s collection. Porter front and back covers: Author’s collection. Chicago Cubs: Author’s collection. Strange Fruit: Courtesy of the collection of Brian Anderson. Forever Amber: Author’s collection. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Author’s collection. Chicken Every Sunday: Author’s collection. Betty Smith: Author’s collection. Soldier in traction: U.S. Army Pictorial Service. Soldier in LST: © Corbis. Mobile library in Italy: © Corbis. Sholund letter: Edgar Sholund correspondence, 1945, Council on Books in Wartime Records, Box 32, “Letters from Servicemen J–Z” folders, 20th Century Public Policy Records, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
About the Author
MOLLY GUPTILL MANNING is the author of The Myth of Ephraim Tutt and several articles appearing in publications such as the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. She is an attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City.