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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Personal narratives Personal narratives, British Biography |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Juliette Pattinson |
ISBN: | 9780719085093 0719085098 |
OCLC Number: | 963566906 |
Description: | xv, 236 pages : illustrations |
Contents: | Reconstructing the Special Operations Executive -- "To pass as a native" : recruiting for operations in France -- "Taught how to play a part" : training agents for undercover work -- "A jittery business" : representations of anxiousness in personal and filmic accounts -- "Living a different life" : performing "heroic" and "stoic" masculinities -- "The best disguise" : performing femininities for clandestine purposes -- "Pretending at once" : passing performances in captivity -- "So many happy memories" : demobilisation and the return to civvy street. |
Series Title: | Cultural history of modern war. |
Responsibility: | Juliette Pattinson. |
Abstract:
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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[a] meticulously researched and fascinating study... Behind enemy lines offers new insights into the complexities of gender relations during the Second World War...' -- .
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