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title: Give your good books to our fighting men
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/give-your-good-books-victory-book-campaign-1943/
description: 'Book-donation poster for the 1943 Victory Book Campaign: a stream of books falls from outstretched hands toward three profiled servicemen in cap and sailor'
section: Collection
---

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# Give your good books to our fighting men

Book-donation poster for the 1943 Victory Book Campaign: a stream of books falls from outstretched hands toward three profiled servicemen in cap and sailor collar. The slogan asks civilians to give the books they would like to keep. The technique (transfer) is mild: the servicemen's faces carry the appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GIVE
YOUR GOOD
BOOKS
TO OUR FIGHTING MEN
THE BOOKS
YOU'D LIKE TO KEEP...
ARE THE GOOD ONES
TO GIVE
TAKE THEM TO THE NEAREST
LIBRARY OR COLLECTION CENTER FOR THE
1943 VICTORY BOOK CAMPAIGN
SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASS'N.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS . . . THE U.S.O.
[imprint: illegible small mark, bottom centre]
```

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