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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
By Graham, Elyse
- ISBN
- 9780063280878
- Publisher
- HarperAudio
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Reviewed on March 14, 2025 | Audio
Historian Graham (digital humanities, Stony Brook Univ.; You Talkin' to Me?) reveals how intelligence collected by academics in the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, guided military decisions that helped defeat the Axis powers. Graham describes how, with no intelligence agency in place and a desperate need to gather information, the United States created the OSS. Academic experts were asked to leave their teaching careers ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
