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<p>When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor and invited to become an intelligence agent for the British. Not without trepidation, Cnockaert embarked on a career as a spy, providing information and engaging in sabotage before her capture and imprisonment in 1916. After the war, she was paid and decorated by a grateful British government for her service.</p> <p>Cnockaert’s is only one of the surprising and gripping stories that comprise <b>Female Intelligence</b>. This is the first history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of these women and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. Between the founding of modern British intelligence organizations in 1909 and the demobilization of 1919, more than 6,000 women served the British government in either civil or military occupations as members of the intelligence community. These women performed a variety of services, and they repres

Author

Tammy M. "Gagne" Proctor

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814766941

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.65 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14