Liza Mundy on how, at long last, the female spies of WWII are finally getting their due
Liza Mundy writes about a slew of important new books that tell the amazing true stories of women spies during WWII, for
The Atlantic.
❝ Are women useful as spies? If so, in what capacity? Maxwell Knight, an officer in MI5, Britain’s domestic-counterintelligence agency, sat pondering these questions. Outside his office, World War II had begun, and Europe’s baptism by blitzkrieg was under way. In England—as in the world—the intelligence community was still an all-male domain, and a clubby, upper-crust one at that. But a lady spy could come in handy, as Knight was about to opine
… [TheAtlantic.com]
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