The academic spies of WWII with Elyse Graham

How does a librarian kill someone with a newspaper? This and other academic spycraft in Elyse Graham's Book and Dagger.

References mentioned this episode:

• Elyse Graham. 2024. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Harper Collins.
• Elyse Graham’s website
• Elyse Graham’s Bluesky
• Michelle Young. 2025. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland. Harper Collins.

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