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Allen, Susan Heuck, (1952-)

 

  • Classical spies[electronic resource] :American archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 940.86473092
    書名/作者: Classical spies : American archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece // Susan Heuck Allen.
    作者: Allen, Susan Heuck,
    出版者: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (440 p.).
    標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
    標題: HISTORY / Military / World War II.
    標題: Archaeologists - History - 20th century. - United States
    標題: Archaeologists - History - 20th century. - Greece
    標題: Spies - History - 20th century. - Greece
    標題: Espionage - History - 20th century. - Greece
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - United States.
    標題: World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - Greece.
    ISBN: 9780472027668 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0472027662 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780472117697 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0472117696 (hbk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    摘要、提要註: "Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a widereadership 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 WarII Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew onscholars' personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might thinkIndiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home:burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, andorganizing parachute drops.Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as Princeton's RodneyYoung, Cincinnati's Jack Caskey andCarl Blegen, Yale's Jerry Sperlingand Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr's Virginia Grace proved their mettle aseffective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazicounterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an excitingand personal perspective on the history of World War II"--
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