Juliette Pattinson

Behind enemy lines

Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075698
• ISBN-10: 0719075696
• Artikelnr.: 23139132

Autorenporträt

Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates, figures and tables Abbreviations 1: Introduction:
Reconstructing the Special Operations Executive 2: 'To pass as a native':
Recruiting for operations in France 3: 'Taught how to play a part':
Training agents for undercover work 4: 'A jittery business'?:
Representations of anxiety in personal and filmic accounts 5: 'Living a
different life': Performing 'heroic' and 'stoic' masculinities 6: 'The best
disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes 7: 'Pretending
at once': Passing performances in captivity 8: 'So many happy memories':
Demobilisation and the return to civvie street Bibliography Appendix:
Biographies of interviewees Index