Gabrielle Petit : the death and life of a female spy in the First World War /
In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, an ambitious and patriotic Belgian, executed by firing squad in 1916 for her role as an intelligence...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In central Brussels stands a statue of a young woman. Built in 1923, it is the first monument to a working-class woman in European history. Her name was Gabrielle Petit. History has forgotten Petit, an ambitious and patriotic Belgian, executed by firing squad in 1916 for her role as an intelligence agent for the British Army. After the First World War she was celebrated as an example of stern endeavour, but a hundred years later her memory has faded. In the first part of this historical biography Sophie De Schaepdrijver uses Petit's life to explore gender, class and heroism in the context of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472590886 1472590880 1472590899 9781472590893 9781474248884 1474248888 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474248884 |