The Book at War
Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
(Sprache: Englisch)
A Times Best Book of 2023
'Magisterial' Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week)
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'Magisterial' Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times (A Sunday Times Book of the Week)
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Andrew Pettegree
Andrew Pettegree, FBA, is one of the leading experts on Europe during the Reformation. He currently holds a professorship at St Andrews University where he is the director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue Project. He is the author of The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself (winner of the Goldsmith Prize) and Brand Luther: 1517, Printing and the making of the Reformation, among other publications.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrew Pettegree
- 2023, Main, 474 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 16,4 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1800814933
- ISBN-13: 9781800814936
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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