Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the Oss Book

Probably about 3.5 stars.

What I liked: There were some gripping true stories that I hadn’t heard before. The author served in OSS during WWII, so she knew her subject. The book was arranged by area rather than strictly by chronology, and that organization worked well for this project. I also liked that she didn’t wait until the epilogue to say what happened to the women she wrote about. Instead, she explained what happened to them right after she highlighted their careers, while their stories were still fresh in the reader’s mind.

What I didn’t like: Some parts were a little dull. It felt like the author was trying to string together brief statements on all the women she interviewed, even when their work was fairly routine (routine as in important, but not necessarily interesting). I also felt the author spent too much effort highlighting all the OSS officers whose families were broken over the course of the war. Perhaps she was trying to make her situation (she and her pre-war husband both survived the war, but their marriage did not) appear normal.