عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
D639.S8 P487 2015eb
D639
.
S8
P487
2015eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1472590880
(Number (ISBN
1472590899
(Number (ISBN
1474248888
(Number (ISBN
9781472590886
(Number (ISBN
9781472590893
(Number (ISBN
9781474248884
Erroneous ISBN
1472590864
Erroneous ISBN
1472590872
Erroneous ISBN
9781472590862
Erroneous ISBN
9781472590879
Erroneous ISBN
9781472590893
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Gabrielle Petit :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the death and life of a female spy in the First World War /
First Statement of Responsibility
Sophie De Schaepdrijver.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Bloomsbury Academic,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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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CodeMantra
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9781472590893
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Gabrielle Petit
International Standard Book Number
9781472590862
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Petit, Gabrielle,1893-1916.
Petit, Gabrielle,1893-1916.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Spies-- Belgium, Biography.
Women spies-- Belgium, Biography.
World War, 1914-1918-- Secret service-- Belgium.
World War, 1914-1918-- Secret service-- Great Britain.
World War, 1914-1918-- Underground movements.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
European history.
HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.
History.
Military history.
Secret service.
Spies.
Underground movements, War.
Women spies.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Belgium.
Great Britain.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BIO-- 006000
HIS-- 010020
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
940
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4/86493092
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
D639
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S8
Book number
P487
2015eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Schaepdrijver, Sophie de.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200823030307.0
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Electronic name
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