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…
⬅ Back home
Read full article ➡