Nancy's Bookshelf: An archaeologist turned OSS spy

By Nancy Wiegman,

Published June 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM PDT

Best-selling author Stephan Talty has written the true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relics.

The book is The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece.

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Nancy Wiegman

Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.

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Matt Fidler

Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.

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