Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Becam Back to School Base Ingredients:

Base Ingredients:

Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe

--Naomi Novik

After serving in a series of staff positions--regimental executive officer

grinding settings ranging from very fine to coarse

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Becam Back to School Base Ingredients:The 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 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