When Books Went to War (34 page)

1163
Tom Gill,
Starlight Pass

1164
Ernest Haycox,
Trail Town

1165
Geoffrey Household,
The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories

1166
Patricia Wentworth,
She Came Back

1167
Walter S. Landis,
Your Servant the Molecule

1168
Commander Edward Ellsberg,
Treasure Below

1169
William Sloane,
The Edge of Running Water

1170
Frank Graham,
The New York Yankees

1171
Harold Hart, ed.,
Top Stuff

1172
J. Roy Stockton,
The Gashouse Gang

1173
William Irish,
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

1174
Peter W. Rainier,
Green Fire

1175
B. D. Zevin, ed.,
Cobb's Cavalcade

1176
Daphne du Maurier,
The King's General

1177
Erich Maria Remarque,
Arch of Triumph

1178
Jack Goodman, ed.,
While You Were Gone

 

Beginning with the II-Series, the ASEs were printed in smaller batches for occupation troops.

 

II-Series, July 1946

1179
Ernie Pyle,
Last Chapter

1180
John McNulty,
Third Avenue, New York

1181
Peter Field,
Ravaged Range

1182
Gore Vidal,
Williwaw

1183
Will Ermine,
Outlaw on Horseback

1184
Luke Short,
Coroner Creek

1185
Dorothy Macardle,
The Unforeseen

1186
Lucy Cores,
Let's Kill George

1187
C. S. Forester,
Lord Hornblower

1188
Alice Campbell,
With Bated Breath

1189
Gene Fowler,
A Solo in Tom-Toms

1190
Ben Hibbs, ed.,
The Saturday Evening Post Stories, 1942–1945

 

JJ-Series, August 1946

1191
Lee Casey, ed.,
Denver Murders

1192
Curtis Bishop,
By Way of Wyoming

1193
Frank Sullivan,
A Rock in Every Snowball

1194
Jonathan Stagge,
Death's Old Sweet Song

1195
Rex Beach,
The World in His Arms

1196
William MacLeod Raine,
Clattering Hoofs

1197
Warren Brown,
The Chicago Cubs

1198
Jim Corbett,
Man-Eater of Kumaon

1199
Stanley Vestal,
Jim Bridger

1200
Ernest K. Gann,
Blaze of Noon

1201
Robert Penn Warren,
All the King's Men

1202
Willa Gibbs,
Tell Your Sons

 

KK-Series, September 1946

1203
Thomas Heggen,
Mister Roberts

1204
Arthur Sampson,
Football Coach

1205
Richard Sale,
Benefit Performance

1206
E. E. Halleran,
Double Cross Trail

1207
Earl Wilson,
Pikes Peek or Bust

1208
William Colt MacDonald,
Thunderbird Trail

1209
Vera Caspary,
Stranger Than Truth

1210
George Tabori,
Companions of the Left Hand

1211
Mary O'Hara,
Green Grass of Wyoming

1212
Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher,
Driftwood Valley

1213
Wilbur Daniel Steele,
The Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele

1214
Commander Edward Ellsberg,
Under the Red Sea Sun

 

LL-Series, October 1946

1215
Kenneth Fearing,
The Big Clock

1216
Max Brand,
Mountain Riders

1217
Pat Frank,
Mr. Adam

1218
Erle Stanley Gardner,
The Case of the Borrowed Brunette

1219
Christopher La Farge,
The Sudden Guest

1220
Peter Freuchen,
White Man

1221
Jonathan Daniels,
Frontier on the Potomac

1222
Stout Rex,
The Silent Speaker

1223
Joseph A. Margolies, ed.,
Strange and Fantastic Stories

1224
Odell Shepard and Willard Shepard,
Holdfast Gaines

1225
John P. Marquand,
B.F.'s Daughter

1226
John Jennings,
The Salem Frigate

 

MM-Series, November 1946

1227
Ralph G. Martin,
Boy from Nebraska

1228
David Stern,
Francis

1229
Willis George,
Surreptitious Entry

1230
James B. Hendryx,
Courage of the North

1231
Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge,
Death of a Tall Man

1232
John Steinbeck,
The Wayward Bus

1233
MacKinlay Kantor,
But Look, the Morn

1234
Van Wyck Mason,
Saigon Singer

1235
Fred Gipson,
Fabulous Empire

1236
Frank Waters,
The Colorado

1237
Ed Ainsworth (Edward M.),
Eagles Fly West

1238
Inglis Fletcher,
Toil of the Brave

 

NN-Series, December 1946

1239
Les Savage Jr.,
Treasure of the Brasada

1240
Tom West,
Six Gun Showdown

1241
Helen Reilly,
The Silver Leopard

1242
Luther Whiteman,
The Face of the Clam

1243
William Wister Haines,
Command Decision

1244
Arthur Henry Gooden,
The Shadowed Trail

1245
Bergen Evans,
The Natural History of Nonsense

1246
Carter Dickson,
My Late Wives

1247
Mildred Walker,
The Quarry

1248
James A. Michener,
Tales of the South Pacific

1249
Holger Cahill,
Look South to the Polar Star

1250
Eric Sevareid,
Not So Wild a Dream

 

OO-Series, January 1947

1251
Nelson C. Nye,
The Barber of Tubac

1252
Dana Faralla,
The Magnificent Barb

1253
Fred Feldkamp, ed.,
Mixture for Men

1254
Wayne D. Overholser,
Buckaroo's Code

1255
Pat McGerr,
Pick Your Victim

1256
Michael Blankfort,
The Widow-Makers

1257
Evan Evans,
The Border Bandit

1258
William Gilmore Beymer,
The Middle of Midnight

1259
Clyde Brion Davis,
Jeremy Bell

1260
Frederick G. Lieb,
The Detroit Tigers

1261
Garland Roark,
Wake of the Red Witch

1262
Paul I. Wellman,
The Walls of Jericho

 

PP-Series, February 1947

1263
Max Brand,
Valley of Vanishing Men

1264
Peter Field,
Gambler's Gold

1265
Herman Wouk,
Aurora Dawn

1266
Gordon Merrick,
The Strumpet Wind

1267
Ernest Haycox,
Long Storm

1268
Laura Z. Hobson,
Gentleman's Agreement

1269
Ngaio Marsh,
Final Curtain

1270
Hilda Lawrence,
Death of a Doll

1271
Frederick G. Lieb,
The Boston Red Sox

1272
Max Manus,
9 Lives Before Thirty

1273
Elliot Arnold,
Blood Brother

1274
David L. Cohn,
This Is the Story

 

QQ-Series, March 1947

1275
Curtis Bishop,
Shadow Range

1276
Anthony Thorne,
So Long at the Fair

1277
Mark Layton,
Silver Spurs

1278
Edward A. Herron,
Alaska: Land of Tomorrow

1279
Manning Coles,
With Intent to Deceive

1280
John Dickson Carr,
The Sleeping Sphinx

1281
Robert Standish,
Mr. On Loong

1282
Marguerite Eyssen,
Go-Devil

1283
Shirley Graham,
There Was Once a Slave

1284
C. W. Grafton,
My Name Is Christopher Nagel

1285
John Myers Myers,
The Wild Yazoo

1286
Evelyn Wells,
Jed Blaine's Woman

 

RR-Series, April 1947

1288
Bliss Lomax,
Trail Dust

1289
David Dodge,
How Green Was My Father

1290
Will Ermine,
The Drifting Kid

1291
Patrick Quentin,
Puzzle for Pilgrims

1292
Kelley Roos,
Ghost of a Chance

1293
Richard Lockridge and Frances Lockridge,
Think of Death

1294
Zane Grey,
Valley of Wild Horses

1295
Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman,
Mrs. Mike

1296
Annemarie Ewing,
Little Gate

1297
A. B. Guthrie Jr.,
The Big Sky

1298
Raymond T. Bond, ed.,
Famous Stories of Code & Cipher

 

SS-Series, May 1947

1299
Allan R. Bosworth,
Hang and Rattle

1300
Peter Field,
Trail from Needle Rock

1301
George Milburn,
Flannigan's Folly

1302
Erle Stanley Gardner,
The Case of the Fan-Dancer's Horse

1303
Francis Rufus Bellamy,
Blood Money

1304
William Colt MacDonald,
Master of the Mesa

1305
Arthur Loveridge,
Tomorrow's a Holiday

1306
John Jennings,
Boston: Cradle of Liberty

1307
Michael Leigh,
Comrade Forest

1308
Robert McLaughlin,
The Side of the Angels

1309
Herbert Krause,
The Thresher

1310
Idwal Jones,
Vermilion

 

TT-Series, June 1947

1311
Max Brand,
The False Rider

1312
Kathleen Moore Knight,
The Blue Horse of Taxco

1313
Craig Rice, ed.,
Los Angeles Murders

1314
Elliot Merrick,
Passing By

1315
Richard Phenix,
On My Way Home

1316
Bob Feller,
Strikeout Story

1317
Budd Schulberg,
The Harder They Fall

1318
Charles E. Gillham,
Raw North

1319
Natalie Anderson Scott,
The Story of Mrs. Murphy

1320
Thomas B. Costain,
The Moneyman

1321
Samuel Shellabarger,
Prince of Foxes

1322
Ernie Pyle,
Home Country

 

2002–3

The Armed Services Editions reappeared in 2002 and 2003, when Andrew Carroll's Legacy Project distributed 100,000 copies of seven titles to Americans serving in the armed forces around the world. These modern ASEs had the same dimensions and appearance as the 1940s ASEs.

 

Allen Mikaelian,
Medal of Honor

William Shakespeare,
Henry V

Sun Tzu,
The Art of War

Andrew Carroll, ed.,
War Letters

Christopher Buckley,
Wry Martinis

Dr. John A. Gable, ed.,
The Man in the Arena

Geraldine McCaughrean,
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights

 

Introduction

 

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“
Were you ever”:
Letter from D. C. to “Mrs. Jones,” May 20, 1944, Council on Books in Wartime Records, 1942–1947, Coll. No. MC038, 20th Century Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library (hereinafter Council Records).

[>]
“
have breakfast with”:
Letter from “somewhere in the Philippines,” February 2, 1945, Council Records.

[>]
“
God-damned infantry”:
Ernie Pyle,
Here Is Your War
(New York: Pocket Books, 1944), 255.

[>]
ducks in a shooting:
James J. Fahey,
Pacific War Diary
(New York: Zebra Books, 1963), 63.

[>]
“
out of uniform”:
Letter from B. T. C., October 17, 1944, Council Records.

[>]
“
To heave one”:
Letter from “Sidney” from “somewhere at sea” (undated), Council Records.

 

1. A Phoenix Will Rise

 

[>]
Even the misty:
Frederick T. Birchall, “Nazi Book-Burning Fails to Stir Berlin,”
New York Times
, May 11, 1933.