A Tangled Web: Mata Hari - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tangled Web: Mata Hari write by Mary W. Craig. This book was released on 2017-07-14. A Tangled Web: Mata Hari available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; a woman whose adult life was a fantastical web of lies, half-truths and magnetic sexuality that captivated men. Following the death of a young son and a bitter divorce, Mata Hari reinvented herself as an exotic dancer in Paris, before finally taking up the life of a courtesan. She could have remained a half-forgotten member of France's grande horizontale were it not for the First World War and her disastrous decision to become embroiled in espionage. What happened next was part farce and part tragedy that ended in her execution in October 1917. Recruited by both the Germans and the French as a spy, Mata Hari – codenamed H-21 – was also almost recruited by the Russians. But the harmless fantasies and lies she had told on stage had become part of the deadly game of double agents during wartime. Struggling with the huge cost of war, the French authorities needed to catch a spy. Mata Hari, the dancer, the courtesan, the fantasist, became the prize catch.
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Femme Fatale write by Pat Shipman. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Femme Fatale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biography of the most infamous woman of the early 20th century, the Dutch courtesan and alleged spy Margaretha Zelle (1876-1917), - Mata Hari Mata Hari was the prototype of the beautiful but unscrupulous female agent who used sexual allure to gain access to secrets, if she was indeed a spy. In 1917, the notorious dancer Mata Hari was arrested, tried, and executed for espionage. It was charged at her trial that the dark-eyed siren was responsible for the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. Irrefutably, she had been the mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French Minister of War: a point viewed as highly suspicious. Worse yet, she spoke several European languages fluently and travelled widely in wartime Europe. But was she guilty of espionage? For all the publicity Mata Hari and her trial received, key questions remain unanswered. These questions concern not only her inadequate trial and her unproven guilt, but also the events in her personal life. What propelled Margaretha Zelle, destined to be a Dutch schoolteacher, to transform herself into Mata Hari, the most desirable woman in early 20th-century Paris? She danced before enthusiastic crowds in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Milan and Rome, inspiring admiration, jealousy, and bitter condemnation. Pat Shipman's brilliant biography pinpoints the powerful yet dangerous attributes that evoked such strong emotions in those who met Mata Hari, for hitherto the focus has been on espionage, not on exploring the events that shaped her life and caused her to transform herself from rural Dutch girl to international femme fatale.
Mata Hari
Mata Hari - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mata Hari write by Thomas Coulson. This book was released on 194?. Mata Hari available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Borders Witch Hunt
Borders Witch Hunt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borders Witch Hunt write by Mary W. Craig. This book was released on 2020-11-06. Borders Witch Hunt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this tremulous period of Scottish history and examines the causes and effects of the 17th century witchcraft trials and executions in the Scottish Borders.
King of Cuba
King of Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King of Cuba write by Cristina Garcia. This book was released on 2013-05-21. King of Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessively seeks revenge against the dictator.
