EAN: 9781800814936

THE BOOK AT WAR - ANDREW PETTEGREE GEBUNDEN

A Sunday Times Best Book of 2023    '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 Kynaston   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.

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