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The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s Cambridge, Nazi-era Germany and Eastern Europe, and post-war European reconstruction in Italy and West Germany, as a female pioneer in the male-dominated spheres of journalism, government service, and academia.

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Introduction 1: Becoming a Journalist: From Cambridge to Berlin 2: Czechoslovakia and the Nazi 'Drang nach Osten' 3: Secret Agent in Wartime Switzerland 4: 'Dear Mr. Dulles': A Special Relationship 5: Starting Over in Postwar Europe 6: The Academic Life and After

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 11/01/2023
      ISBN13: 9780192870629, 978-0192870629
      ISBN10: 0192870629
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      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers History General and world history Espionage and secret services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s Cambridge, Nazi-era Germany and Eastern Europe, and post-war European reconstruction in Italy and West Germany, as a female pioneer in the male-dominated spheres of journalism, government service, and academia.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1: Becoming a Journalist: From Cambridge to Berlin 2: Czechoslovakia and the Nazi 'Drang nach Osten' 3: Secret Agent in Wartime Switzerland 4: 'Dear Mr. Dulles': A Special Relationship 5: Starting Over in Postwar Europe 6: The Academic Life and After

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