The American School of Spies The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece | 19.1 MB
Title: The American School of Spies
Author: Stephan Talty
Category: Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Greece, Military, World War II, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Language: English | 320 Pages | ISBN: 9798217044726
Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world’s most precious relics
In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan deployed spies across Europe and around the world to try to thwart the Nazis. In Greece, Nazis weren’t just taking over territory; they were seizing and threatening to destroy some of the world’s most important and valuable historical monuments and artifacts. So, Donovan tapped a young Ivy League-trained archaeologist named Rodney Young to assemble and lead a team of spies to collect intel.
Young set about recruiting the most unlikely of spies-academics, classicists, epigraphers, and other specialists and scholars-who would come to be kown as “the Greek Desk.” These men and women, along with their Greek allies, went undercover and tried…
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world’s most precious relics
In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan deployed spies across Europe and around the world to try to thwart the Nazis. In Greece, Nazis weren’t just taking over territory; they were seizing and threatening to destroy some of the world’s most important and valuable historical monuments and artifacts. So, Donovan tapped a young Ivy League-trained archaeologist named Rodney Young to assemble and lead a team of spies to collect intel.
Young set about recruiting the most unlikely of spies-academics, classicists, epigraphers, and other specialists and scholars-who would come to be kown as “the Greek Desk.” These men and women, along with their Greek allies, went undercover and tried…
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