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 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.

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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.

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.

Many soldiers wanted to start reading Genesis after the holiday so they could start the yearly cycle of weekly portions, Grossman explained. “It’s a shame to immediately fall behind.

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 ...