Book description
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the events of war into acquiring andā¦
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I just love it when a topic that sounds dullāin this case librarians and archivists during World War IIāturns out to be unexpectedly rich and interesting.Ā
Peiss recounts in riveting detail the highly successful wartime mission that sent teams of scholars and other bookish types to scour Europeās bookstores and basements for rare and otherwise valuable publications. Amassing truckloads of printed material not only aided the Alliesā intelligence operations but also restored looted property, demobilized Nazi propaganda, and, ultimately, transformed the holdings of American research libraries.
From Brooke's list on surprising histories about Americans abroad during WWII.
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