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1) Cold warriors: writers who waged the literary cold war

Author

White, Duncan

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

2019.

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"A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if...

2) The book at war: how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading

Author

Pettegree, Andrew

Publisher

Basic Books

Pub. Date

2023.

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Exploring the various roles books have played in conflicts around the world, an esteemed literary historian shows how books have shaped modern military history and accounts for the power-and the ambivalence-of words at war.

3) The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

Author

Alexander, Caroline

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2009

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Many have forgotten that the subject of the "Illiad" was war--not merely the poetical romance of the war at Troy, but war, in all its enduring devastation. This groundbreaking reading of Homer's epic poem restores the poet's vision of the tragedy of war, addressing many of the central questions that define the war experience of every age.

4) When books went to war: the stories that helped us win World War II

Author

Manning, Molly Guptill

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2014.

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"When America entered World War II in 1941, [it] faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry...