When the Army and Navy decided during WWII to provide books to the troops, they ignited a love of reading even in people who had not been readers.

In addition, the force of information, ideas, feelings, and philosophies in the pages of the proliferation of books during this era helped to fight the tyrants who were stripping freedoms from people who had fallen under their domination.

"When Books Went to War" tells of the swell of interest in reading woven into the account of the stages of the war and how books and their readers helped to win WWII and the war of ideas.