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Hello, books are a powerful tool and war is an all-out endeavor.

It's no surprise that war has drafted books into its army.

But exactly how has it done so?

And what has that meant for conflict?

And what has conflict meant for books?

We explore this with literary historian Andrew pedigree today on the history of literature.

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Hello, hello hello

welcome to the podcast I hope your I'm Jack Wilson by the way, still here, doing my best, and I hope you're all doing well too. I'm glad you're on board for this one. Let's give Emily Dickinson the day off and go straight to our topic. We have a

literary historian here and his topic is war. We've explored this a few times here at the

History of Literature podcast, but his immersion is deep.

Asking questions we haven't always thought to ask.

There's a central dichotomy here.

We tend to think of books as marvelous, as humanity at its finest,

while war is humanity at its most desperate and devastating low. Books are not just the Krem to a Krem are they they can be used

as propaganda and how-to guides for evil means and they can be burned and bombed.

What happened in the 20th century, that war-torn era?

What happened to books in particular?

Andrew Pedagree will join us to discuss all that in a minute and then let's round

things out with something more tranquil.

A my last book by well maybe it's not going to be so tranquil.

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