Freedom to Read: The Fight Against Banned Books in WWII

In connection with the exhibition Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime, historian Molly Guptill Manning discusses the campaign by Nazi Germany to ban and burn books beginning in 1933, and the Allied response of distributing hundreds of millions of books to troops and promoting the freedom to read. Manning, author of When Books Went to War, discusses her new book A Librarian's War, on the role of books and librarians in wartime democracy, followed by a signing.