Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 277 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780190944643
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9780190944636
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9780190944629
Content:
'Information Hunters' examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications & information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, & spies went to Europe to collect books & documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis & followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores & schools & gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, & participated in the denazification of book collections. This work explores what collecting meant to the men & women who embarked on these missions & how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books & documents
Note:
Auf der Anbieter-Startseite: Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-19-094461-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
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Geheimdienst
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Europa
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Informationseinrichtung
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Druckwerk
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Beschlagnahme
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Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Aufklärung
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USA
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Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Bibliothekar
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Archivar
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Sammeln
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Information
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Druckwerk
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Geheimdienst
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190944612.001.0001
URL:
Volltext
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