Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II Louise Gluck 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist

2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist

develop an unsettling medical condition: the kids are craving blood

Wizard West was dead for nearly an entire day before he noticed

a boy she thought she knew

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 2022 Carnegie Medal LonglistThe 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