Pattinson Behind enemy lines

Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6224-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural History of Modern War

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pattinson, Juliette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

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 accounts
5: ‘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 street
Bibliography
Appendix: Biographies of interviewees
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pattinson Juliette:
Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of KentJuliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent