"The War May Have Been Fought on Battlefields, but It Was Won in Libraries"

"Hitler also reviled what he called Tintenritter, or 'ink knights': academics, writers, librarians. What could they offer to the mighty Wehrmacht? As it turns out, the seemingly pointless and definitely un-martial labor of OSS's scholar-spies and the Chairborne Division gave the U.S. essential intelligence about German infrastructure—the kind of intelligence that Graham writes the Nazis never bothered to develop about Britain, and that would have made its bombing raids even more devastating."

Greg Barnhisel at The New Republic reviews Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II.