TY - SER
AU - John B. Hench
CY - Ithaca, NY
LA - English
N1 -
Contents:
- Introduction: Books on the Normandy beaches
- Modernizing U.S. book publishing
- War changes everything, even books
- Publishers organize for war and plan for peace
- "Books are the most enduring propaganda of all"
- Seeking "an inside track to the world's bookshelves"
- "Everyone but the janitor" selected the books Books to pacify and reeducate the enemy
- Making the "nice little books"
- Liberating Europe with books
- The rise and fall of the United States International Book Association
- The empire strikes back
- Books for occupied Germany and Japan
- Epilogue: American books abroad after 1948
PB - Cornell University Press
PP - Ithaca, NY
PY - 2010
SN - 9780801448911
EP - 333 pp.
TI - Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II
ER -