‘Magisterial’ Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week)’Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree’s tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.’ David KynastonChairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando – before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books have all too often found themselves on the frontline. In The Book at War, acclaimed historian Andrew Pettegree traces the surprising ways in which written culture – from travel guides and scientific papers to Biggles and Anne Frank – has shaped, and been shaped, by the conflicts of the modern age. From the American Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, books, authors and readers have gone to war – and in the process become both deadly weapons and our most persuasive arguments for peace.
Non Fiction
The Book at War : Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
£30.00
by Pettegree, Andrew | Literature & literary studies
Published 05/10/2023 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 480 pages, 16pp colour inset
SKU: 9781800814936
Category: Non Fiction
Weight | 0.754 kg |
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