Books As Weapons : : Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II / / John B. Hench.
Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in transla...
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Hench, John B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Books As Weapons : Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II / John B. Hench. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (352 p.) : 12 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: Books on the Normandy Beaches -- Part I: CULTIVATING NEW MARKETS -- 1. Modernizing U.S. Book Publishing -- 2. War Changes Everything—Even Books -- Part II: BOOKS AS “WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS” -- 3. Publishers Organize for War and Plan for Peace -- 4. “Books Are the Most Enduring Propaganda of All” -- 5. Seeking “an Inside Track to the World’s Bookshelves” -- 6. “Everyone but the Janitor” Selected the Books -- 7. Books to Pacify and Reeducate the Enemy -- 8. Making the “Nice Little Books” -- Part III: U.S. CULTURAL POWER ABROAD -- 9. Liberating Europe with Books -- 10. The Rise and Fall of the United States International Book Association -- 11. The Empire Strikes Back -- 12. Books for Occupied Germany and Japan -- Epilogue: American Books Abroad after 1948 -- Appendix A. Overseas and Transatlantic Editions -- Appendix B. Titles in the Bücherreihe Neue Welt Series -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under General Eisenhower's command.Books As Weapons tells the little-known story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help "disintoxicate" the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers' ambitions to find new profits in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France, and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war. Key figures on both the trade and government sides of the program considered books "the most enduring propaganda of all" and thus effective "weapons in the war of ideas," both during the war and afterward, when the Soviet Union flexed its military might and demonstrated its propaganda savvy. Seldom have books been charged with greater responsibility or imbued with more significance.John B. Hench leavens this fully international account of the programs with fascinating vignettes set in the war rooms of Washington and London, publishers' offices throughout the world, and the jeeps in which information officers drove over bomb-rutted roads to bring the books to people who were hungering for them. Books as Weapons provides context for continuing debates about the relationship between government and private enterprise and the image of the United States abroad. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Propaganda, American Europe History 20th century. Propaganda, American Japan History 20th century. Publishers and publishing United States History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Propaganda. Military History. U.S. History. HISTORY / Military / World War II. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110667493 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727276 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501727276 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501727276/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction: Books on the Normandy Beaches -- Part I: CULTIVATING NEW MARKETS -- 1. Modernizing U.S. Book Publishing -- 2. War Changes Everything—Even Books -- Part II: BOOKS AS “WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS” -- 3. Publishers Organize for War and Plan for Peace -- 4. “Books Are the Most Enduring Propaganda of All” -- 5. Seeking “an Inside Track to the World’s Bookshelves” -- 6. “Everyone but the Janitor” Selected the Books -- 7. Books to Pacify and Reeducate the Enemy -- 8. Making the “Nice Little Books” -- Part III: U.S. CULTURAL POWER ABROAD -- 9. Liberating Europe with Books -- 10. The Rise and Fall of the United States International Book Association -- 11. The Empire Strikes Back -- 12. Books for Occupied Germany and Japan -- Epilogue: American Books Abroad after 1948 -- Appendix A. Overseas and Transatlantic Editions -- Appendix B. Titles in the Bücherreihe Neue Welt Series -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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