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BL
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850452
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Schaepdrijver, Sophie de.
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| Title & Author
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Gabrielle Petit : : the death and life of a female spy in the First World War /\ Sophie De Schaepdrijver.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2015.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1472590880
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: 1472590899
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: 1474248888
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: 9781472590886
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: 9781472590893
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: 9781474248884
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1472590864
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1472590872
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9781472590862
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9781472590879
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9781472590893
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Disinheritance, 1893-1914 -- Engagement, August 1914-August 1915 -- War work, August 1915-February 1916 -- Confrontation, 2 February to 3 March 1916 -- "Utterly alone," 3 March 1916-11 November 1918 -- Memory agents, 1918-1919 -- National heroine, 1919-1923 -- Palimpsest, 1924-2007.
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| Abstract
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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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Petit, Gabrielle,1893-1916.
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Petit, Gabrielle,1893-1916.
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Spies-- Belgium, Biography.
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Women spies-- Belgium, Biography.
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World War, 1914-1918-- Secret service-- Belgium.
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World War, 1914-1918-- Secret service-- Great Britain.
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World War, 1914-1918-- Underground movements.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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European history.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.
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History.
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Military history.
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Secret service.
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Spies.
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Underground movements, War.
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Women spies.
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Belgium.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.4/86493092
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| LC Classification
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D639.S8P487 2015eb
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