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Sunday, September 14, 2014

War Stories

During World War II, book publishers began to mass-produce cheap copies of their most valuable hardcovers, selling them to the army for pennies. Yoni Appelbaum looks back at which titles made a particular impression on GIs: No book generated more passion among its readers than A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a gritty coming-of-age novel. On […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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