Helen Fry in Conversation with Elyse Graham on her book “Book & Dagger”

In June 1942, William “Wild Bill” Donovan founded the OSS to coordinate intelligence, recruiting humanities and social science scholars to analyze data on an industrial scale. Churchill called these gifted amateurs “corkscrew thinkers,” proving that wartime espionage needed no fiction—its reality was incredible enough.

Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis—a tale that reveals the indelible power of the humanities to change the world.

In the series:
Jun. 22: with Elyse Graham on Book & Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Jul. 20: with Michelle Young on The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland