lithub.com/how-an-army-librarian-brought-the-joy-of-reading-to-the-front-lines How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines
In 1942 the Army's chief librarian toured Pacific war zones and found GIs craved pulp westerns, pin-ups and Sears catalogs over anything literary. The catch: soldiers wanted pocket-sized paperbacks, a format major publishers still refused to touch.
— via Literary Hub, Molly Guptill Manning
