Classical Spies – American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece

Classical SpiesAmerican Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece\nAuthor(s): Susan Heuck Allen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472035397, 978-0472035397\nSynopsis\nClassical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected. William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian .