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- Title
Handbags to hand grenades: preparing women for work behind the lines in Occupied France.
- Authors
Vigurs, Kate
- Abstract
The article discusses women's roles as secret agents within Great Britain's military organisation the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in German-occupied France during World War II. An overview the SOE's training of women spies, including their training with weapons, is provided. The relationship between motherhood and women in the military is discussed.
- Subjects
WOMEN spies; GERMAN occupation of France, 1914-1918; GREAT Britain. Special Operations Executive; WOMEN in war; WORLD War II; WEAPONS -- History; MOTHERHOOD &; society; TWENTIETH century; TRAINING; HISTORY
- Publication
Women's History Magazine (1476-6760), 2014, Issue 76, p23
- ISSN
1476-6760
- Publication type
Article