The Princess Spy was a wonderfully in depth look at life in a neutral country during and after WWII, through the eyes and experiences of spy and countess, Aline Griffith. The narrative flowed smoothly between topics and from year to year. Aline's life was marvelously interesting and her work during the war was invaluable. Aside from that, she is an enjoyable person to read about. She seems to have been good, kind, and strong in her morals and beliefs. The anecdote about how she told her mother she was marrying Luis stuck with me long after I passed that section of the novel. It was both comical and made me question exactly how American isolationism and propaganda worked from WWI through the cold war. If this book is what helps me chose an era of historical literature to study in grad school, I will credit it in my dissertation. Aline is a woman I want to know more about, and whose books I want to read.