Behind Enemy Lines
Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents, equipp…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8509-3
- EAN: 9780719085093
- Produktnummer: 29407544
- Verlag: Manchester University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 327 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 327
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Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent
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