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Originally Posted by ElspethB
If you're interested in the subject, I highly recommend Molly Guptill Manning's When Books Went to War. I had no idea how important books, particularly the specially-formatted Armed Services Editions, were to the soldiers and sailors in WWII. |
I second this rec. It was a very interesting book and led me to hunt down some of the service editions of classics. One of the points that Manning makes is that it was the service publications of Gatsby that brought the book the fame it has now, not the original publication.