Two women from vastly different walks of life that were brought to the center of World War II by situations mostly out of their control, but made huge differences because of their work. We follow two women in this book, Ava and Elaine. The Librarian Spy was one of those stories. They could go places men couldn’t go and get away with it without being detected. These women were pertinent to ending the Nazi regime because they were jobs that men simply could not do. My favorite type of historical fiction is those that talk about the women who didn’t have to step in, but made the choice to take on jobs that were dangerous and put them far outside their comfort zones. **A copy of the book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them.Īs the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war. It’s a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence.
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