Description
Book SynopsisBehind 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. -- .
Table of ContentsList 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
