The untold story of the academics who beca me OSS spies\, invented modern spycraft\, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII\, the US found itself in desperate need of an int elligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS)\, a precursor to today's CIA\, was quickly formed-and\, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts\, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly\, literature professors\, librarians\, and historians were training to perform undercov er operations and investigative work-and these surprising spies would go o n to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institut ions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger\, Elyse Graham draws on person al histories\, diaries\, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. A mong them are Joseph Curtiss\, a literature professor who hunted down Germ an spies and turned them into double agents\; Sherman Kent\, a smart-mouth ed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Eu rope and Africa\; and Adele Kibre\, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and tran sform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillin gly paced and rigorously researched\, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis-a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world.& nbsp\;
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