I Was a Spy!: The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War

I Was a Spy!: The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World WarDescription by Marthe McKenna Hardcover With her medical studies cut short by the 1914 German invasion, her house burned down and her father arrested for suspected sharpshooting, it was perhaps unsurprising that the multi lingual Marthe Mckenna (ne Cnockaert, codename Laura) 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 caf in the Belgian border town

The Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia

commonly called MI6

State Department’s senior officer in Mazatlán

American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars

unemployed and destitute

uncompromising

Montenegro

For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America’s involvement in World War I

On conclusion of the inquiry

they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion: the Hindenburg Line

Too long eclipsed by Lawrence

Through it all