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 ...

Soldier's love of books touched others Soldier's love of books touched others ... “To read a book like the books Armando read really gives you insight into life,” Longshore said.

WWII By The Books: The Pocket-Size Editions That Kept Soldiers Reading. This week in 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Over the next few years, millions of Americans would leave home 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 ...

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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.

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.