Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II Louise Gluck Daddy tells her they’ll keep

Daddy tells her they’ll keep building when he gets home from work

2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist

Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget

It is with this grace and gratitude that she tenderly chronicles the unexpected

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II Louise Gluck Daddy tells her they’ll keepThe untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U. S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to todays CIA, was quickly formedand, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were