I bought this 1947 newspaper photo on eBay. It came with a charming caption: He's a Clerk, Not a Millionaire Hollywood, Californi...

"Want a good book?" Army Librarian section books for soldiers. Left to Right: Sgt. Seymore Grobzob, Virginia Hallowell, Elizabet...

  I found couple nice photos of GIs reading in the National Archives collection. It looks like the guy above is reading a Pocket Book pape...

Photographer George Rodger took this shot of a W H Smith & Son bookstore in London, 1940. I found the image in Magnum's collect...

Here’s a photo of RAF pilot Francis Mellersh getting a haircut and reading Greenmantle by John Buchan . Fairlop Airfield Base, Essex, ...

Merle Oberon Victory Book Campaign publicity photo, 1943. Last week on eBay I bought this 8 x 10 publicity photo. The caption on the ba...

I found this photo of a Gi reading a book on this Dutch WWII reenactment website . Their webpage is a nice little history of the book pub...

In researching books in Britain during World War II, the two photographs below kept turning up. They appear on numerous bookish blogs, but n...