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Female Intelligence - Women and Espionage in the First World War (Hardcover)
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Female Intelligence - Women and Espionage in the First World War (Hardcover)
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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.
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