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In Madeleine Masson’s book Christine SOE Agent & Churchill’s Favorite Spy, Masson sheds light and further helps to show who Christine Granville was and how she impacted World War II for Britain. Christine Granville was a beauty queen who turned into the spy who loved otherwise known as the Britain's Special Operations Executive and Churchill’s favorite spy. Born in Warsaw in 1915 to an aristocratic family, whom later was known to fall to the hard times, Christine Granville was born as Krystyna Scarbek. Christine Granville was a G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, who was undeniably one of the most successful agents of World War II until she was murdered at thirty-seven years old in the London Hotel in 1952. She worked as a British secret agent …show more content…
After Poland fell to Germany’s control in September of 1939, Christine came back from East Africa where she had been with her husband Jerzy Giżycki when the war had started and came to London to be a fighter pilot against the Germans eventually volunteering to be a spy along with her husband. When entering as a spy her name was changed from Krystyna Giżycki to Christine Granville by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) as a way of protecting her identity as a British agent and spy, although after the war she would continue to keep the name. Before she even became a spy she had already prepared a plan. Christine planned to go to Budapest, Hungary, whom at the time was allied with Nazi Germany. She would then print propaganda flyers and dispute them within Poland for the people of Poland to revolt against the Nazis and escaping as refugees. She planned to ski into Poland via the Tatra mountain range. She also planned to take intelligence missions and help those in the polish resistance and British prisoners of war escape from the country. Although initially being skeptical of her plan, eventually the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) approved of the idea and sent her off to Budapest to follow though. Along with her husband, Christine had useful contacts in Germany which led her to Hungary before the end of the year. In Hungary, she helped with …show more content…
After the war, Christine Granville faced some difficult times. She was unable to fully blend into the world of peace in which was upon the world now and could not trust those around her based on her experiences during the war efforts.
As a work of history, I do believe that in Madeleine Masson’s book Christine SOE Agent & Churchill’s Favorite Spy is not only an interesting read on a powerful woman, but also an accurate representation of the historical person as well. Madeleine Masson studied history and philosophy at the university of Sorbonne in Paris. She later gained a Ph. D. in philosophy before she went on to study art and humanities in Munich. Her degrees did have an effect on how this book is as a work of history because her credentials give her more creditably to write on historical events and people such as Christine
The book begins by explaining the roles that women in this time were known to have as this helps the reader get a background understanding of a woman’s life pre-war. This is done because later in the book women begin to break the standards that they are expected to have. It shows just how determined and motivated these revolutionary women and mothers were for independence. First and foremost, many people believed that a “woman’s truth was that God had created her to be a helpmate to a man” (p.4). Women focused on the domain of their households and families, and left the intellectual issues of the time and education to the men. Legally, women had almost no rights. Oppressed by law and tradition, women were restricted their choice of professions regardless of their identity or economic status. As a result, many women were left with few choices and were cornered into marriage or spinsterhood, which also had its limitations. As a spinster, you were deemed as unmarried who was past the usual age of marriage. Patronized by society, these women were left and stamped as “rejected”. On the other side, If the woman became married, all that she owned belonged to her husband, even her own existence. In exchange to her commitment, if a woman’s husband was away serving in the military or if she became a widower, she could use but not own, one-third of her husband’s property. This left her to manage the land and serve as a surrogate laborer in her husband’s absence. Needless to say, a day in a woman’s life then was filled with a full day of multi-tasking and as circumstances changed, more women had to adapt to their urban
Zeinert, Karen. Those Incredible Women of World War 2: The Millbrook Press, Brookfield, Connecticut 1994
Spies are found all throughout the world. They are most likely looking for clues to help another person. Believe it or not, spies were sent out from the North and South during the Civil War to help provide information “behind the lines.” Spies supporting the North were called, Union Spies. This group contained both men and women. There were few slaves, but often there were patriotic people. The spies of the Civil War worked hard to give their side any small edge in winning. Elizabeth Van Lew, Pauline Cushman, Sarah Thompson, and Sarah Emma Edmonds were Union Spies that played a huge role in relaying information from the South to the North to increase the North’s chance of succeeding during the Civil War.
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...ave women confidence because their voice was finally being heard and they had a vital position and role in their country. They began to be important contributors to society in all sectors and industries. Not only were women given recognition for services and contributions, but they were no longer being taken for granted,
Gilbert, Martin. "Churchill and the Holocaust: The Possible and Impossible." The Churchill Centre. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.
...ause of her set out to do something she was passionate about. She gave her research a chance. Although it took more to authenticate her work, she did that in
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Jews all over Europe feared for their lives and many were aware that the punishment for their religion depended on the country they were fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to live in. Hitler not only held prejudice against Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and those who harboured any of the above, but also held firm convictions that some countries’ citizens were fit to die, no matter their religion. No one was hit harder by this prejudice as was Poland. Hitler hated all Polish citizens and hated Polish Jews even more. In Warsaw, Jews were confined to a blocked off area which came to be known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Many of these Jews never saw outside the Ghetto again and for those who did it was only en route to a concentration camp or labour prison. Food rations inside the Ghetto were very low and though many outsiders smuggled food in, there was not nearly enough to keep everyone alive. Many died of starvation or died due to illness they had contracted because their bodies had grown so weak. Throughout the war, Sweden remained neutral and many Jews from neighbouring countries were smuggled in. Nazi police soon realized that they had to find ways to prevent this from happening and turned to the animal world. Dogs were trained to detect the scent of humans and soon, all boats leaving for Sweden were searched to detect any Jews that were hiding in basement compartments. Most Jews were discovered before they could escape and this discouraged many more from attempting to do the same. Jews that were apprehended were not treated much differently by the Nazis but the Jews left behind received the brunt of the their anger. Danish Jews in particular were often accused of planning to escape because of their proximity to Sweden. There are stories of countless ...
After Chanel’s two failed missions in sending letters of treaty negotiations she is not accredited with the label as a spy (Vaughan 199). However she is linked to the Nazi party, for her involvement with the Abwehr (134). Chanel is considered proactive in her strategy to recover her nephew. It can be justly claimed that Chanel, although involved in Nazi social circles and ambitions, was not a Nazi spy as she sought to bring peace and the safety of her nephew in her actions and proof of her missions were never recovered.
Andrea Kennedy Yates was born on July 2, 1964 in Houston, Tex. She graduated from Milby High School in Houston in 1982. She was the class valedictorian, captain of the swim team and an officer in the National Honor Society. She completed a two-year pre-nursing program at the University of Houston and then graduated in 1986 from the University of Texas School of Nursing in Houston. She worked as a registered nurse at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1986 until 1994. Yates early life showed promise for future success.
knowing that she needed to do something to support her child. After the war, she
...nd bloodshed. Women gave a reason to go to war, a reason to come back from the war, and oddly, a reason to want to return to the war. The men were in a fraternity of life, and with no women around for so long they began to rely on themselves, and no longer had the needs that were provided them by women. They wanted to play in the jungle with their friends, only this time with no guns. They missed the life that they spent together eating rations and swapping stories. When they went home they were veterans, like the old men of the World Wars. If they stayed, they were still heroes, warriors, and victims. They still loved deeply the women at home, because they had no reason to fight or bicker, or possibly realize that the women they assumed would be waiting for them had changed in that time. The men were torn between love of women, and the love of brotherhood.