Brand: Elyse Graham

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II is a non-fiction book that tells the true story of how American academics and librarians were recruited to become spies for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), invented modern spycraft, the precursor to the CIA, and helped turn the tide of the war.

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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 today’s CIA, was quickly formed–and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. . .

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