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: Libraries |
Author |
: Wisconsin Free Library Commission |
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: |
Release |
: 1896 |
File |
: 1080 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015036849712 |
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: [Anonymus AC07135138] |
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: |
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: 1846 |
File |
: 16 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: ONB:+Z43207407 |
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: 1894 |
File |
: 494 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: PRNC:32101076204690 |
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Genre |
: Antiquarian booksellers |
Author |
: John Major |
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: |
Release |
: 1818 |
File |
: 82 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OXFORD:590647111 |
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: |
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: |
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: 1871 |
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: 696 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: ONB:+Z258662200 |
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: 1864 |
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: 936 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BSB:BSB10808404 |
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: Frederick Beecher Perkins |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Release |
: 2024-07-03 |
File |
: 358 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783385538603 |
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Genre |
: American drama |
Author |
: Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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: |
Release |
: 1941 |
File |
: 1536 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015076106791 |
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: George A. LEAVITT (AND COMPANY.) |
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: |
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: 1873 |
File |
: 590 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0026410986 |
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Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under General Eisenhower's command. Books As Weapons tells the little-known story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help "disintoxicate" the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers' ambitions to find new profits in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade and government sides of the program considered books "the most enduring propaganda of all" and thus effective "weapons in the war of ideas," both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibility or imbued with more significance. John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the programs with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Washington and London, publishers' offices throughout the world, and the jeeps in which information officers drove over bomb-rutted roads to bring the books to people who were hungering for them. Books as Weapons provides context for continuing debates about the relationship between government and private enterprise and the image of the United States abroad.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: John B. Hench |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Release |
: 2016-10-15 |
File |
: 353 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781501727276 |