The background of America's response to Nazi book burnings, the formation of various groups to provide soldiers with reading material, and the final creation of the group that would select, edit, produce and send over 100 million ASE paperbacks to soldiers all over the world are covered in this episode of the Paperback Show. There's also a short section on "recent paperbacks" included in the podcast where we cover some of the most interesting paperbacks we've read recently.

Head over to paperbackshow.com for full show notes, links and a gallery of Armed Service Edition covers.