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Mathilde Carré 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 secrets—many settling in the countries they betrayed to avoid being shot on return to the USSR. This book records the lives of the "agentes" and investigates the powerful motives that drove them to undertake such dangerous work—like patriotism, ideology, love and revenge.
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Women in HistoryTable of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Perfect Cover for the Perfect Spy
- 2 Handmaidens of the Red God
- 3 Born in Bessarabia, Buried in Beijing
- 4 The Women who did not Talk About it
- 5 Women Against Hitler
- 6 The Human Submarines
- 7 When the Men are Away …
- 8 SOE SOS
- 9 Heroine or Liar?
- 10 Rape as a Tool of War
- 11 The Whore of the Republic
- 12 Sayonara, SIS
- 13 Two Daughters of Israel
- 14 The Pearl in the Lebanese Oyster
- 15 Dutch Courage
- 16 Condemned for Mercy
- 17 Death Behind Bars
- 18 Women in the Cold War
- 19 Women in the War Between the States
- 20 ‘Intrigues Best Carried On by Ladies’
- 21 Strange Ladies Indeed
- 22 Sex and the Secretary of State
- 23 The KGB is Dead. Long Live the SVR!
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes and Sources
- Picture section
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