Once guys read this book, I think they'll be hooked on reading, or at least see the light of reading, and then, only then, will soldiers start reading." Capt. Matthew Payne Commander, A Company ...

Long Soldier’s “Whereas” is both a rewriting and a response, not unlike Solmaz Sharif’s extraordinary 2016 debut, “Look,” which uses words from a U.S. Department of Defense manual to ...

Reading seems to be a basic human need. In Ukraine, a government-supported project gives official recognition to the fact that soldiers fighting against the Russian invasion find solace in books ...

The Kern Dance Alliance is back and partnering with several Kern County Library branches for the 9th annual “Books in Motion” ...

The idea that good soldiers needed good books didn’t start with World War II. During World War I, the American Library Association collaborated with the Army to gather and distribute donated books.

Reading Matter for the Soldiers. Share full article. Aug. 12, 1863. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 12, 1863, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

Famous historian and Yale University Professor Timothy Snyder has met Oleksandr Shyrshyn, a Ukrainian soldier who was photographed reading Snyder's book, The Road to Unfreedom, in a trench.

A 23-page, hard-copy pocket version of the book summarizes some Army policies -- mostly uniform rules -- and includes service creeds, a brief rundown of the U.S. Constitution and the Army song.

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. UCLA anthropologist Jason De León spent seven years embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico. He tells their ...

Ian Fleming, whose wartime service as a naval intelligence officer inspired the James Bond novels, and also Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, “a James Bond book for children.” (p. 8) Elizabeth “Betty” P.

I came across Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion when I was in my teens, in a box of my late grandmother’s books. It was a paperback edition of Ford’s novel of 1915 ...