kuow.org: https://www.kuow.org:443/stories/in-the-biggest-book-giveaway-in-history-wwii-soldiers-received-pocket-sized-reads

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Subject: F000471
Source: GDELT news · original
Published: Monday, May 25, 2026

The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."

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