# When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II

Molly Guptill Manning discussed her book that tells the story of how, during World War II, publishers, book sellers and librarians mobilized to launch a program that distributed more than 122 million small, lightweight paperbacks to troops overseas.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Genres: War, History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689893/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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