EAN: 9781800814936

THE BOOK AT WAR - ANDREW PETTEGREE GEBUNDEN

A 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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