Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War

by Tammy M. "Gagne" Proctor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814766943
• ISBN13: 9780814766941
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.6"