Information hunters : when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe / Kathy Peiss.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190944643 (ebook) :Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Confiscations and contributions -- Europe | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- United States
| Books -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Intelligence service -- United States -- Information services | Acquisitions (Libraries) -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Cultural property -- Protection -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | Librarians -- United States -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Europe | United States. Office of Strategic Services | Library of Congress Mission to GermanyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190944612DDC classification: 940.548673094 LOC classification: D810.C8 | P45 2019Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Information Hunters' examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications & information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, & spies went to Europe to collect books & documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis & followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores & schools & gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, & participated in the denazification of book collections. This work explores what collecting meant to the men & women who embarked on these missions & how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books & documents.
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Due to be issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Information Hunters' examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications & information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, & spies went to Europe to collect books & documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis & followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores & schools & gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, & participated in the denazification of book collections. This work explores what collecting meant to the men & women who embarked on these missions & how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books & documents.
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