Agente: Female Secret Agents in World Wars, Cold Wars and Civil Wars

by Douglas Boyd

Book Overview

Mathilde Carr was caught by the Abwehr in occupied France and betrayed everyone in her Resistance network to her new lover. At her trial, she said, "Women do not have the same choices as men." Yet female agents of SOE saved thousands of Allied soldiers' lives. In the Comintern's 70-year war against the West, Moscow's many female agents seduced soldiers and politicians, got divorced and married following orders, financed revolutions and stole nuclear...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750966947
• ISBN13: 9780750966948
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"