Abstract
Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd introduced Searchlight Books to the British reading public in February 1941. Their advertisements promised that the new 128-page, 'popular but serious' hardbound essays, to be co-edited by George Orwell and Tosco Fyvel, would be 'the most important [new series] for 1941' because they would 'serve as an arsenal for the manufacture of mental and spiritual weapons needed for the crusade against Nazism'. Because the issues to be addressed were so vital, potential customers were advised to read the series as a whole, 'since each book fits into a carefully prepared editorial plan'.1 This plan was nothing if not ambitious. Searchlight Books proposed to:
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