What is it about?
An examination of selected case studies portraying individual wives of intelligence operatives, constructed on the basis of information gathered from scattered primary and secondary sources. The study ends by pointing out the need for further investigations into the welfare of field operatives and the responsibility of intelligence services for the security, protection, and possible compensation of field personnel and their dependants.
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Why is it important?
This is a pioneering study of intelligence activities that seeks to draw upon the methodologies of such adjacent disciplines as social history and historical geoinformatics.
Perspectives
It is high time to actualise the “voice” of those married to intelligence operatives which generally remains absent from or peripheral to wartime intelligence studies.
Professor Adrian O'Sullivan
Bishop Grosseteste University
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This page is a summary of: Wives of Secret Agents: Spyscapes of the Second World War and Female Agency, International Journal of Military History and Historiography, October 2019, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/24683302-03902003.
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