Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War

by Juliette Pattinson

Book Overview

Behind enemy lines is an examination of gender relations in wartime using the Special Operations Executive as a case study. Drawing on personal testimonies, in particular oral history and autobiography, as well as official records and film, it explores the extraordinary experiences of male and female agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085098
• ISBN13: 9780719085093
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"