The Book at War
- Author Andrew Pettegree
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 14 hours and 37 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Antiques, vintage and collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera and printed matter, Library, archive and information management, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general.
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Chairman 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
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
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