Author Talk with Gershom Gorenberg “War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East”

War of Shadows Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East by Gershom Gorenberg
Summer 1942: Rommel’s army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv. The SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far. And espionage can stop them – if Washington wakes up.

War of Shadows is the meticulously constructed and cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II. It rewrites the popular narrative of the war—not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but as a spiraling series of accidents and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of millions.

“A masterpiece of scholarship and synthesis…It will remind readers of a cloak-and-dagger tale by John Le Carré with an armature of fascinating historical annotation.”

— The Washington Post

“With the pacing of a spy thriller… War of Shadows takes us to the brink of disaster as the Allies and Axis powers vie for control of the Middle East…. Gorenberg belongs to a unique cadre of journalist historians.”
—Sarah Wildman, author of Paper Love

“A dazzling and groundbreaking portrait of a crucial moment in WWII… Gorenberg has produced a vital new account of one of the key episodes of the last century.”
—Matti Friedman, author of Spies of No Country

“The story grips you so much that it’s hard to put aside: the extraordinary spying in both directions, the vivid characters, the huge stakes, and all of this on a World War II front that American readers know surprisingly little about.”
—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost

Gershom Gorenberg is the author of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East.

His previous books include The Unmaking of Israel and The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. He is a columnist for the Washington Post, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly and The New York Review of Books and in Hebrew for Haaretz.

Gorenberg lives in Jerusalem, except during stints teaching a workshop on writing history at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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