Behind Enemy Lines - Gender, Passing Special Operations Executive in Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 accounts5: '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 streetBibliography Appendix: Biographies of intervieweesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Juliette Pattinson, Pattinson Juliette
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780719075698
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7569-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War; Cultural History of Modern War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Frankreich, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Spionage und Geheimdienste, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Moderne Kriegsführung