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"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gather together countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in…
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2 editions- Audiobook · English · 2020Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664485822
- Other · English · 2020Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II EuropeOxford University Press, USA · 277 pages · 9780190944612
BooksIntelligence service, united statesAcquisitions (libraries)Cultural property, protectionLibrariansWorld historyWorld War, 1939-1945Confiscations and contributions