Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II

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By Elyse Graham

HarperCollins, 2024

Parallels from then to now are striking: mass firings, whispers/fake news, book bans and burnings, takeover of media and universities, etc.

True story. Inspiring, gripping, rigorous research, very readable ‘thriller’.

There’s a reason Tesla is crashing in Germany. They know what’s happening.

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1. Just picked it up at library today.

My wife and I are both retired librarians, should be exciting to read.

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2. Thanks for rec. I'm now #31-ish on hold for an ebook at my library.

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3. You're welcome. Hard to wait for a book. My library has it as a book of the month with lots of copies. Lucky me.

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4. There were books available, but I chose to wait for an ebook since I'm still currently reading

Looking at Women Looking at War, Victoria Amelina a war crimes researcher and chronicler of the war in Ukraine. Very good, some scary parallels to situations of disinformation, news, etc to what is happening in US now.

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5. Sounds good. I'll check it out, so to speak. Cheers.