Molly Guptill Manning

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1) 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]

Language

English

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Chronicles the joint effort of the U.S. government, the publishing industry, and the nation's librarians to boost troop morale during World War II by shipping more than one hundred million books to the front lines for soldiers to read during what little downtime they had.

2) The war of words: how America's GI journalists battled censorship and propaganda to help win World War II

Author

Manning, Molly Guptill

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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"At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...