The theme of «war and the book» is very versatile. Dozens of papers have been published for seventy years after the World War II, which contents reflect different aspects of publishing activity and specificity of the book social existence under battlefront and home front various conditions. The authors try to convince that the book was an active participant in the national struggle against invaders, an effective mean of mobilizing spiritual forces to fight the enemy and the way of entertainment. Researchers studied more thoroughly the problem of mass political and fiction production; topics of special study became the specificity of publishing industry; attempts were made to study the book business during war years within certain regions. Nowadays the war period books are the guardians of historical memory, along with archival documents they are important sources for reconstructing the war objective history. However, the history of production, distribution and use of books, pamphlets and other publications during the war needs special research.