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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- American Library Association, American Red Cross and U.S.O. (1943 Victory Book Campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
American Library Association, American Red Cross and U.S.O. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-899 (NAID 514404).
Text on the object
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]
