'Touching, among other things, on aspects of institutional history, cultural history, the history of political language, the history of intellectuals, and the history of knowledge, while not shying away from the nitty-gritty details of humanitarian practices, the brick-and-mortar aspects of the reconstruction of repositories of knowledge, or the logistics involved in the physical transmission of books, Feeding the Mind treats its subject from what one might call a total-historian perspective. Based on impressive archival research, this wide-ranging approach adds immense flavour to the post-war period, from the First World War to Locarno and reveals some of the ways in which the war experience shaped the post-war world. The book, then, offers rich insights to students and scholars of the interlinked histories of war, intellectuals, and humanitarianism, as well as those grappling with the First World War's impact on the post-war era's societies and intellectual lives.' Frederik Forrai Ørskov, First World War Studies.