Behind enemy lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of plates, figures and tables
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Reconstructing the Special Operations Executive
2. 'To pass as a native': Recruiting for operations in France
3. 'Taught how to play a part': Training agents for undercover work
4. 'A jittery business'?: Representations of anxiety in personal and filmic accounts
5. 'Living a different life': Performing 'heroic' and 'stoic' masculinities
6. 'The best disguise': Performing femininities for clandestine purposes
7. 'Pretending at once': Passing performances in captivity
8. 'So many happy memories': Demobilisation and the return to civvie street
Bibliography
Appendix: Biographies of interviewees
Index
