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‘A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance’ The Lady
‘Fascinating’ Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine
‘A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me’ Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two Women in Rome

On the evening of 31 March 1916, a 23-year-old woman was led from her prison cell in occupied Brussels. She wore a long blue coat and walked ‘like a soldier’. The chaplain asked if she would like a blindfold before her execution. ‘I am not afraid of looking into the rifles,’ she replied. ‘I have been expecting this for a long time.’
 
This is not a traditional history of the First World War. It is the untold story of the women of the resistance in Belgium and occupied France during that conflict.  
 
Rick Stroud describes how the actions of eight ex

I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles

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‘A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance’ The Lady‘Fascinating’ Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine‘A fierce, intense... Read more

    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
    Publication Date: 2/29/2024
    ISBN13: 9781398507067, 978-1398507067
    ISBN10: 1398507067

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    ‘A thrilling narrative that creates an extraordinary picture of female resistance’ The Lady
    ‘Fascinating’ Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine
    ‘A fierce, intense picture of this aspect of the war . . . it will stay with me’ Elizabeth Buchan, author of Two Women in Rome

    On the evening of 31 March 1916, a 23-year-old woman was led from her prison cell in occupied Brussels. She wore a long blue coat and walked ‘like a soldier’. The chaplain asked if she would like a blindfold before her execution. ‘I am not afraid of looking into the rifles,’ she replied. ‘I have been expecting this for a long time.’
     
    This is not a traditional history of the First World War. It is the untold story of the women of the resistance in Belgium and occupied France during that conflict.  
     
    Rick Stroud describes how the actions of eight ex

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