Women Wartime Spies
Title | Women Wartime Spies PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Kramer |
Publisher | Grub Street Publishers |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2012-07-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1844683826 |
“A thrilling, challenging and educational book . . . examines the roles of spies such a Edith Cavell, Mata Hari, Violette Szabo and Noor Inayat Khan” (Pennant Magazine). Women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving and passing on vital information, frequently at considerable risk. Often able to blend into their background more easily than their male counterparts, women have worked as couriers, transmitters, and with resistance fighters, their achievements often unknown. Many have died. Ann Kramer describes the role of women spies during wartime, with particular reference to the two world wars. She looks at why some women chose to become spies, their motives, and backgrounds. She looks at the experience of women spies during wartime, what training they received, and what skills they needed. She examines the reality of life for a woman spy, operating behind enemy lines, and explores and explodes the myths about women spies that continue until the present day. The focus is mainly on Britain but also takes an international view as appropriate. “Tells the often surprising stories of some of the women who chose to become spies and to serve their country . . . An excellent work.” —The Great War Magazine
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
Title | Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Edwards |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-04-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107146038 |
Explores China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies, shedding new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation.
Female Intelligence
Title | Female Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Tammy M Proctor |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2003-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814745385 |
When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor and invited to become an intelligence agent for the British. Not without trepidation, Cnockaert embarked on a career as a spy, providing information and engaging in sabotage before her capture and imprisonment in 1916. After the war, she was paid and decorated by a grateful British government for her service. Cnockaert’s is only one of the surprising and gripping stories that comprise Female Intelligence. This is the first history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of these women and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. Between the founding of modern British intelligence organizations in 1909 and the demobilization of 1919, more than 6,000 women served the British government in either civil or military occupations as members of the intelligence community. These women performed a variety of services, and they represented an astonishing diversity of nationality, age, and class. From Aphra Behn, who spied for the British government in the seventeenth century, to the most well known example, Mata Hari, female spies have a long history, existing in juxtaposition to the folkloric notion of women as chatty, gossipy, and indiscreet. Using personal accounts, letters, official documents and newspaper reports, Female Intelligence interrogates different, and apparently contradictory, constructions of gender in the competing spheres of espionage activity.
The Lost Girls of Paris
Title | The Lost Girls of Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Pam Jenoff |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1460398769 |
Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal. In this riveting story inspired by true events, Pam Jenoff weaves a tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the hardest of circumstances. Don’t miss Pam Jenoff’s new novel, Code Name Sapphire, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance during World War II. Read these other sweeping epics from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff: The Woman with the Blue Star The Orphan’s Tale The Ambassador’s Daughter The Diplomat’s Wife The Kommandant's Girl The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Winter Guest
Female Intelligence
Title | Female Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | Tammy M. Proctor |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2003-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814766935 |
Informative and innovative, this book focuses on the cultural images, realities, challenges, and contradictions for women in intelligence service in Britain during World War I.
American Women Spies of World War II
Title | American Women Spies of World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Payment |
Publisher | Rosen Publishing Group |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2003-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823944491 |
Describes the lives and covert operations of six women who worked as American spies during World War II.
The Role of Female Spies in World War II
Title | The Role of Female Spies in World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Hallie Murray |
Publisher | Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2019-12-15 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1502655519 |
Although spying has always been a part of warfare, espionage didn't become an official part of American war efforts until World War II. The United States government established the Office of Strategic Services, which employed spies, translators, map readers, and code breakers to help gather information. Many of these roles were filled by women. This compelling book tells the riveting stories of six of these lady spies, including singer Josephine Baker, who smuggled military secrets on her sheet music; model and countess Aline Griffith; and the dangerously effective "Limping Lady," Virginia Hall.