""Classical 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 dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school
connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee,
and organizing 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 Rodney Young,
Cincinnati's Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale's Jerry Sperling and
Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr's Virginia Grace proved their mettle as
effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their
Nazi counterparts. 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their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret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 exciting and personal perspective on
the history of World War II.
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