How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye
Lit Hub · 10 Aug 2026

How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye

Among the things troops carried with them on the battlefields of World War II was the “heart shield bible”—a pocket-sized, government-issued book of scripture, sometimes with a metal cover, that fi…


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