{"id":4013,"date":"2015-11-22T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T10:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2015-11-21T18:58:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T18:58:58","slug":"when-books-went-to-war-by-molly-guptill-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4025\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1601023\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4025\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/When-Books-Went-to-War-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"When Books Went to War\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/When-Books-Went-to-War-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/When-Books-Went-to-War.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Think there is nothing much left to know about World War II?\u00a0 Think again.\u00a0 This book tells of enlisted men whose one and only form of entertainment became reading, and of the enormous home-front effort to supply them with the books they desperately wanted.\u00a0 Ms. Manning\u2019s book not only depicts the need of soldiers for books to alleviate the horrors of war, but also reminds us all never to take them for granted. \u00a0Librarians, (let\u2019s hear it for them), were the first to realize the lack of books and take steps to organize.\u00a0 Along the way, we get clear glimpses of the hardships of the soldiers and the deep and varied joy the books brought.\u00a0 While one might assume that a drive for books for soldiers would only meet with support, one would be wrong. \u00a0Along the way, there were problems of supply, cost and, of course, censors.\u00a0 But the achievements were outstanding. \u00a0Indeed, the reader begins to realize that the solace and inspiration that the books brought were as powerful a weapon as any the military could provide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think there is nothing much left to know about World War II?\u00a0 Think again.\u00a0 This book tells of enlisted men whose one and only form of entertainment became reading, and of the enormous home-front effort to supply them with the books they desperately wanted.\u00a0 Ms. Manning\u2019s book not only depicts the need of soldiers for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4013\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-roseann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}