Page Turners: How Academics Played Key Roles in the Defeat of Fascism

Page Turners: How Academics Played Key Roles in the Defeat of Fascism

Elyse Graham, a historian and professor at Stony Brook University in New York, has written an entertaining and sometimes cagey book about highly educated British and Americans who joined the war against the Nazis in World War II.Graham’s Book and Dagger, How Scholars and Librarians Became The Unlikely Spies of World War II, is misleading in the sense that it’s much more than what the title suggests. Her canvas is, in fact, far broader. To be sur…