Mission France - 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 Mission France write by Kate Vigurs. This book was released on 2021-05-18. Mission France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.
Invisible Agents
Invisible Agents - 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 Invisible Agents write by Nadine Akkerman. This book was released on 2018-06-10. Invisible Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of civil strife in Britain can escape the historiographer's gaze, then how many more like her lurk in the archives? Nadine Akkerman's search for an answer to this question has led to the writing of Invisible Agents, the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies, demonstrating that the allegedly-male world of the spy was more than merely infiltrated by women. This compelling and ground-breaking contribution to the history of espionage details a series of case studies in which women — from playwright to postmistress, from lady-in-waiting to laundry woman — acted as spies, sourcing and passing on confidential information on account of political and religious convictions or to obtain money or power. The struggle of the She-Intelligencers to construct credibility in their own time is mirrored in their invisibility in modern historiography. Akkerman has immersed herself in archives, libraries, and private collections, transcribing hundreds of letters, breaking cipher codes and their keys, studying invisible inks, and interpreting riddles, acting as a modern-day Spymistress to unearth plots and conspiracies that have long remained hidden by history.
Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters
Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters - 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 Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters write by Karen A. Romanko. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Television's Female Spies and Crimefighters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emma Peel wearing her "kinky boots." Amanda King and her poppy seed cake. Julie Barnes at her hippie pad. Honey West with her pet ocelot. Television's female spies and crimefighters make quite an impression, yet there hasn't been a reference book devoted to them until now. This encyclopedic work covers 350 female spies, private investigators, amateur sleuths, police detectives, federal agents and crime-fighting superheroes who have appeared in more than 250 series since the 1950s, with an emphasis on lead or noteworthy characters. Entries are alphabetical by series, featuring credits and synopses, notable plot points, interesting facts and critical commentary on seminal series and characters. A brief history of female spies and crimefighters on TV places them in chronological perspective and sociological context.
Women in Intelligence
Women in Intelligence - 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 Women in Intelligence write by Helen Fry. This book was released on 2023-01-01. Women in Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women's vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform. From spies in the Belgian network "La Dame Blanche," knitting coded messages into jumpers, to those who interpreted aerial images and even ran entire sections, Fry shows just how crucial women were in the intelligence mission. Filled with hitherto unknown stories, Women in Intelligence places new research on record for the first time and showcases the inspirational contributions of these remarkable women.
Female Agents
Female Agents - 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 Female Agents write by Laurent Vauchaud. This book was released on 2008. Female Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. May 1944. A five-woman commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-day landings and eliminate Coloner Heindrich, the head of German counter-intelligence.
