Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari

Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata HariDescription by Pat Shipman Paperback In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely

Examining the social

and the ending of the First World War

occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history

arms and airplanes from where they were needed most at the Front

the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability

and dispelled Britain’s island sense of security

The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front

and by mid-1917 the first wave of the American Expeditionary Force arrives in Europe

and sinking ships-enriching each memory with personal anecdote

Etaples amongst them – lies a deeply moving story

untold story of these soldiers and their journey to victory on the Western Front in the Battle of Cantigny

nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest