Book and Dagger
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Book and Dagger is a narrative history of the humanities scholars the OSS recruited as spies during World War II. Elyse Graham follows literature professor Joseph Curtiss, historian Sherman Kent and archivist Adele Kibre, drawing on letters, personal histories and declassified OSS files. It suits readers of popular WWII and espionage history who want a researched story rather than a thriller. Compared with spy memoirs and single-agent accounts, it covers a group and the birth of modern intelligence analysis, and it reads as scholarship told at a brisk pace.
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Reception for Book and Dagger centers on its research and its lively portraits of the scholar-spies. Readers drawn to WWII history respond to the untold angle and the OSS documents behind it.
Book and Dagger is a work of WWII history about the academics who became spies for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA. When the U.S. entered the war without an intelligence agency, the OSS recruited literature professors, librarians, and historians. They trained for undercover operations and investigative work.
The book draws on personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files. It follows a connected group of humanities scholars. Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor, hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents. Sherman Kent, a history professor, rose to head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa. Adele Kibre, an archivist, was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS.
It also looks inside the OSS Research and Analysis branch (R&A), known as the Chairborne Division. The book describes how these scholars helped lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transformed American higher education when they returned after the war.
