Blitzkrieg and Books : British and European Libraries As Casualties of World War II

For the first time the war is seen through the perspective of librarians, whose records are enhanced by overviews of the events in Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy & Germany, where libraries suffered police censorship, Gestapo surveillance & devastation. Britain, resisting invasion, lost millions of volumes from fires caused by LUFTWAFFE bombings. The importance of American librarians' official postwar role is noted, too. In addition to other responsibilities in Germany the United States was trustee of Jewish materials whose owners has disappeared in the Holocaust. Recommended by the LIBRARY JOURNAL ("eye-opening" & "readable") & the WILSON LIBRARY BULLETIN. Internationally cited as crucial to the understanding of the cultural history of the Nazi era. Librarian Henrik Ganowiak of Gydnia, Poland: "A valuable & long overdue book"; Shiela Ray, editor of SCHOOL LIBRARIAN (UK): "fascinating," "most readable," & "informative, even for those who experienced the war firsthand." POST OFLAG 64 ITEM editor, Dr. Herbert L. Garris: "reveals an uncommon knowledge of the military campaigns from 1939 to VE-Day...a work of great distinction."Stubbings, Hilda U. is the author of 'Blitzkrieg and Books : British and European Libraries As Casualties of World War II', published 1993 under ISBN 9781880622032 and ISBN 1880622033.