The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading Nature_Gift_Guide little do they know it

little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them again

they learn what it truly means to find a sense of belonging and identity

”—Kelly Link

and no one in it

parasites—minuscule life forms that live inside other organisms—inhabit our everyday lives

The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading Nature_Gift_Guide little do they know itA "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth centuryboth as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breathone ranks among humanitys greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts