Juliette Pattinson

Behind enemy lines

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

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085093
• ISBN-10: 0719085098
• Artikelnr.: 32735913

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