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When America moved into World War II in 1941, we faced an adversary that had forbidden and burned over 100 million catalogs and caused fearful citizens to cover up or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a advertising campaign to send free catalogs to American soldiers and collected 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Office and the posting industry stepped together with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, compact paperbacks for soldiers to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks in every theater of conflict. Comprising 1,200 different headings of each imaginable type, these paperbacks were beloved by the soldiers and are still fondly appreciated today. Troops read them while ready to land at Normandy, in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific, in field clinics, and on long bombing flights. They published to the creators, a lot of whom taken care of immediately every notice. They helped save The Great Gatsby from obscurity. They made Betty Smith, writer of A Tree Increases in Brooklyn, into a countrywide icon. When Literature Went to War is an inspiring account for record buffs and e book lovers alike.
