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050	0	0	_aD639.S8 _bM3 2015
100	1		_aMcKenna, Marthe _eauthor _9126702
245	1	0	_aI was a spy! : _bthe classic account of behind-the-lines espionage in the First World War / _cby Marthe McKenna ; foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, P.C., C.H., M.P. (Secretary of State for War, 1918-1921).
246	3	0	_aClassic account of behind-the-lines espionage in the First World War
264		1	_aOxford ; _aHavertown, PA : _bPool of London, _c[2015].
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (267 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_aText file _bPDF _2rda
500			_aOriginally published: 1932.
520			_a"With her medical studies cut short as the German Army swept across Belgium in 1914, her house burned down and her father arrested for suspected "sharp-shooting", it was perhaps unsurprising that the multi-lingual Marthe McKenna was recruited by British Intelligence. At the time she worked as a nurse tending the wounds of occupying soldiers, and as a waitress in her parents' café in the Belgian border town of Roulers. I Was a Spy! is McKenna's vivid narrative of these breathtaking adventures as she, aided by a gallant band of loyal locals, goes undercover to sabotage enemy phone lines, reports suspicious activity or train movements, and even instigates an aerial attack on a planned visit by the Kaiser. This thrilling account goes on to explain how, in 1916, the young nurse was caught, and court-martialled by the Germans, placing dynamite in a disused sewer tunnel underneath an ammunition dump. She was sentenced to the firing squad and only survived due to the Iron Cross honour received as a result of her earlier medical service to the German Army. McKenna was later mentioned by Douglas Haig in British Despatches and was awarded the French and Belgian Orders of the Legion of Honour for her espionage work."--Back cover.
600	1	0	_aMcKenna, Marthe _9126702
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xSecret service _zGreat Britain _924370
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xUnderground movements _zBelgium _924370
650		0	_aWomen spies _zBelgium _vBiography _9151940
650		0	_aSpies _zBelgium _vBiography _9151939
650		0	_aEspionage, British _xHistory _y20th century _9151938
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _vPersonal narratives, British _96066
655		0	_aElectronic books _92032
700	1		_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965 _ewriter of introduction _929693
856	4	0	_uhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1089716 _zOnline access link to the resource
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