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

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Juliette Pattinson Bertrand Taithe

Behind Enemy Lines

Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War

Juliette Pattinson, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield , Peter Gatrell

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Manchester University Press
01 April 2011

History; British & Irish history; Second World War; Gender studies, gender groups; Espionage & secret services

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

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. -- .

By: Juliette Pattinson
Series edited by: Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 301g
ISBN: 9780719085093
ISBN 10: 0719085098
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Juliette Pattinson is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Strathclyde

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

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