Behind enemy lines by Juliette Pattinson

Behind enemy lines by Juliette Pattinson

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 the Second World War. With its original interpretation of a wealth of primary sources, it examines how these ordinary, law-abiding civilians were transformed into para-military secret agents, equipped with silent killing techniques and trained in unarmed combat. This fascinating, timely and engaging book is concerned with the ways in which the SOE veterans reconstruct their wartime experiences of recruitment, training, clandestine work and for some, their captivity, focusing specifically upon the significance of gender and their attempts to pass as French civilians. This examination of the agents of an officially-sponsored insurgent organisation makes a major contribution to British socio-cultural history, war studies and gender studies and will appeal to both the general reader, as well as to those in the academic community. -- .

[a] meticulously researched and fascinating study… Behind enemy lines offers new insights into the complexities of gender relations during the Second World War…' --

Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent

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ISBN 13	9780719085093
ISBN 10	0719085098
Title	Behind enemy lines
Author	Juliette Pattinson
Series	Cultural History Of Modern War
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2011-04-01
Number of pages	256
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