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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
Maybe someday
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Author:
Andrew Pettegree
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
December 5, 2023
Pettegree explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe, from manuals on military strategy to political novels that helped push public opinion toward war, to the Nazis' use of book burnings. As Pettegree points out, the printed word has always been employed both as a weapon and as a force for peace.
What The Reviewers Say
Sprawling.
This is a big, eclectic, eccentric, and discursive book.
Fascinating.
Endlessly fascinating.
