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Armed Services Edition book collection

 Collection — Object: All
Identifier: 2015-012-r

Book List

The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, Henry Adams(2)

Innocent Merriment: An Anthology of Light Verse, ed. Franklin P. Adams (2)

Canal Town, Samuel Hopkins

A Time for Greatness, Herbart Agar

A Wartime Whitman, ed. Maj. William Aiken (6)

Bedford Village, Hervey Allen

Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson (3)

Anything Can Happen, George and Helen Papishvily (2)

The Bedside Tales, Peter Arno

Blood Brother, Ellito Arnold

Sucker’s Progress, Herbert Asbury (3)

The Apostle: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Paul, Sholem Asch

Semper Fidelis: The U.S. Marines in Action, Keith Ayling

Coast Guard to the Rescue, Karl Baarslag (2)

The Sad Sack, Sgt. George Baker (2)

Young Man with a Horn, Dorothy Baker (2)

Sun in Their Eyes: A novel of Texas in 1812, Monte Barrett

Box Office, Marjorie Barrows and George Eaton

That Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton (2)

Battle Report: Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea, Comm. Walter Karig and Lt. Welbourn Kelley

An Eye for an Eye, Oliver Weld Bayer

The Republic, Charles A. Beard (3)

The Full Life: And Other Stories, D.D. Beauchamp (2)

Jungle Peace: A Naturalist in South America, William Beebe

Mrs. Egg and Other Barbarians, Thomas Beer (4)

The Mauve Decade, Thomas Beer (4)

Seven Men, Max Beerbohm

I Love You I Love You I Love You, Ludwig Bemelmans

Benchley Beside Himself, Robert Benchley (3)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfield, Robert Benchley (2)

After 1903-What?, Robert Benchley (2)

Eddie and the Archangel Mike, Barry Benefield

A Book of Americans, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet (6)

America, Stephen Vincent Benet (6)

Western Star, Stephen Vincent Benet (2)

John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benet

Buried Alive, Arnold Bennett (5)

The Eight Million: Journal of a New York Correspondent, Meyer Berger (3)

Keep Your Head Down, Walter Bernstein

Best Sports Stories of 1944, ed. Irving J. Marsh and Edward Ehre

Young ‘un, Herbert Best

The Outermost House, Henry Beston

The St. Lawrence, Henry Beston

Selected Short Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Algernon Blackwood (2)

Tall Tale America, Walter Blair (3)

The Loom of Language, Frederick Bloomer (2)

The Sky’s the Limit, B.A. Botkin (3)

Yankee From Olympus, Charles Drinker Bowen (2)

Avalanche, Kaye Boyle

The Fighting Four, Max Brand

Riders of the Plains, Max Brand

Cartoons for Fighters, Sgt. Frank Brandt (4)

Brave Men, Ernie Pyle

Prize Stories of 1943, ed. Herschel Brickell (3)

The American Character, D.W. Brogan (3)

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke, Rupert Brooke (3)

The World We Live In, Louis Bromfield (2)

Pleasant Valley, Louis Bromfield

Artie Greengroin, PFC, Harry Brown

Blow for a Landing, Ben Lucien Burman (3)

Time to be Young, Whit Burnett (2)

Nobody Lives Forever, W.R. Burnett

My Three Years With Eisenhower: A Personal Diary, Capt. Harry C. Butcher (3)

Hangman’s House, Donn Byrne

Double Indemnity and Two Other Short Novels, James M. Cain

Tragic Ground, Erskine Caldwell

Stories, Erskine Caldwell

Walt Whitman: An American, Henry Seidel Canby

The Hudson, Carl Carmer

Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Carl Carmer

As The Earth Turns, Gladys Hasty Carroll

Such Interesting People, Robert J. Casey

Stranger Than Truth, Vera Caspary

Bedelia, Vera Caspary

Moscow Dateline: 1941-1943, Henry C. Cassidy (2)

Castaway, James Gould Cozzens (3)

O Pioneers!, Willa Cather (2)

Try and Stop Me, ed. Bennett Cerf

Modern American Short Stories, ed. Bennett Cerf

The City of Trembling Leaves, Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2)

No Life for a Lady, Agnes Morley Cleaveland

Against These Three, Stuart Cloete (3)

Boomerang, Comm. William Chambliss

Windswept, Mary Ellen Chase

The Pocketbook of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

The Outlaw Years, Robert M. Coates (3)

World’s Great Humorous Stories, intro by Irvin P. Cobb (6)

Combustion on Wheels, David L. Cohn (3)

Victory, Joseph Conrad

Green Thoughts and Other Strange Tales, John Collier

Fighting Men of the West, Dane Coolidge

Ironies, Richard Connell (2)

The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad

Selected Radio Plays, Norman Corwin (2)

Ride With Me, Thomas Costain

Danger Is My Business, Capt. John D. Craig

The Amethyst Spectacles, Frances Crane

The Green Years, A.J. Cronin (2)

Hatter’s Castle, A.J. Cronin

The Stars Look Down, A.J. Cronin (2)

The Citadel, A.J. Cronin (3)

40 Million Customers, Carl Crow

The Great American Customer, Carl Crow (2)

Our United States Secret Service, Irving Crump (2)

Pistol Passport, Eugene Cunningham

The Great Bustard and Other People, Will Cuppy

A Shorter History of Science, Sir William Cecil Dampier (2)

The Great American Novel, Clyde Brion Davis (3)

In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis (3)

Life with Father and Mother, Clarence Day (3)

This Simian World, Clarence Day (3)

The Rumplehearts of Rampler Avenue, Maude Smith Delavan

Klondike Mike, Merrill Denison

Laugh it Off, Marione R. Derrickson (2)

Atomic Energy in the Coming Era, David Dietz (2)

Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen (4)

Winter’s Tales, Isak Dinesen (2)

The 17th Letter, Dorothy Cameron Disney

Benjamin Franklin, Carl Van Doren (2)

The Night of the Summer Solstice and Other Stories of the Russian War, Mark Van Doren

Shakespeare, Mark Van Doren

Liberal Education, Mark Van Doren (3)

Disputed Passage, Lloyd C. Douglas

Guerrilla, Lord Dunsany

Straight, Place and Show, Robert S. Dowst

The Voice of the Turtle, John Van Druten (2)

What’s on Your Mind, Joseph Dunninger

The Sea is So Wide, Evelyn Eaton (2)

In What Torn Ship, Evelyn Eaton

Quietly My Captain Waits, Evelyn Eaton

Wings of Fear, Mignon G. Eberhart

Canary, Gustav Eckstein

Lives, Gustav Eckstein (2)

Mostly Canallers, Walter D. Edmonds

Selected Short Stories of Walter D. Edmonds, Walter D. Edmonds (3)

Chad Hanna, Walter D. Edmonds

Young Ames, Walter D. Edmonds

God’s Angry Man, Leonard Ehrlich (3)

There’s One in Every Family, Frances Eisenberg

The Japanese Nation, John F. Embree

Seven Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Outlaw on Horseback, Will Ermine

The Natural History of Nonsense, Bergen Evans

Men of Popular Music, David Ewen (4)

The Story of George Gershwin, David Ewen (3)

Give ‘Em the Ax, A.A. Fair

Going Fishing, Negley Farson

Freedom Road, Howard Fast (5)

Patrick Henry and the Frigate’s keel, Howard Fast

Plowman’s Folly, Edward H. Faulkner

Time Out of Mind, Rachel Field (2)

The Golden Rooms, Vardis Fisher

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Five Western Stories, Cogburn/Foster/Ranger/McCulley/Wilson (3)

Journey in the Dark, Martin Flavin (3)

Toil of the Brave, Inglis Fletcher (2)

Inside the FBI, John J. Floherty

Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Esther Forbes (3)

The General’s Lady, Esther Forbes (2)

The Best American Short Stories 1943, ed. Martha Foley

Indians Abroad, Carolyn Thomas Foreman

To—The Indies, C.S. Forester

Ship of the Line, C.S. Forester

Commodore Hornblower, C.S. Forester

The Captain from Connecticut, C.S. Forester

Four Modern American Plays, Hellman/Thurber and Nugent/ Chodorov/ Fields and Kingsley

Sports Extra, ed. Stanley Frank (2)

Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North, Peter Freuchen

Come In and other poems, Robert Frost

Harvard has a Homicide, Timothy Fuller

This is Murder, Mr. Jones, Timothy Fuller

Farewell to Sport, Paul Gallico

Biography of the Earth, George Gamow (2)

Bermuda Calling, David Garth

The Prophet, Khalil Gibran (2)

White Sails Crowding, Edmund Gilligan (2)

Voyage of the Golden Hind, Edmund Gilligan (2)

Mr. Glencannon Ignores the War, Guy Gilpatric

Barren Ground, Ellen Glasgow

Jazz, Robert Gaffin (2)

The Valley of Dry Bones, Arthur Henry Gooden

Journey Into the Fog: The Story of Vitus Bering and the Bering Sea, Cornelia Goodhue

The Fireside Book of Dog Stories, ed. Jack Goodman

Esquire’s First Sports Reader, ed. Herb Graffis

The Education of T.C. Mits, Hugh Gray and Lillian R. Lieber, (3)

McGraw of the Giants, Frank Graham

Lou Gehrig, Frank Graham

Earth and High Heaven, Gwethalyn Graham (2)

AP: The Story of News, Oliver Gramling (2)

I, Claudius, Robert Graves (2)

Science at War, George W. Gray

New Stories for Men, Capt. Charles Grayson (2)

The Heritage of the Desert, Zane Grey (2)

The Story of the Great Geologists, Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton

Deadlier Than the Male, James Gunn

Henry the Eighth, Francis Hackett (2)

Luck in All Weathers, Donal Hamilton Haines

Comman Decision, William Wister Haines

Doctor Dogbody’s Leg, James Norman Hall

Dates

  • 1943-1946

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.

Biographical / Historical

The Armed Services Editions were printed by the Council on Books in Wartime for distribution to American military serving overseas during World War II. The program lasted from 1943-1946 and was intended to be entertainment to soldiers as well as educated them about political, historical, and military issues. The slogan of the Council was "Books are weapons in the war of ideas." The books were printed in their entirety and published small and compact for the convenience of the soldiers overseas.

Extent

48 Linear Feet (individually shelved)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

This collection consists of several small Armed Services Edition books printed for distribution to American military servicemen/women overseas during World War II from 1943 to 1946. The books feature an array of non-fiction titles as well as classics, poetry, cartoons, biographies and fiction titles of various genres. The published books are complete works and not merely digests.

Arrangement

This collection is located in the Leatherby Libraries basement, room B26, in the first row.

Title
Finding Aid for the Armed Services Editions book collection
Status
In Progress
Author
Andrew Harman
Date
3/16/2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries Repository

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