On May 10, 1933, university students in 34 university towns across Germany burned over 25,000 books. The works of Jewish authors like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud went up in flames alongside ...

A new exhibition tells the story of the Armed Services Editions, pocket-size paperback weapons in the fight for democracy. A soldier reading in a flooded camp in New Guinea during World War II.Credit.

For as long as long as there have been books, there have been those who have tried to destroy them. And in his critically acclaimed 2020 book Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction ...