Information hunters : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
by Peiss, Kathy Lee (Author)
Summary
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral citi... Full description
- The country of the mind must also attack
- Librarians and collectors go to war
- The wild scramble for documents
- Acquisitions on a grand scale
- Fugitive records of war
- Book burning, American style
- Not a library, but a large depot of loot.