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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari (Paperback)
By Pat Shipman
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Description
In , 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, 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 throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth.
About the Author
Pat Shipman is the author of eight previous books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book for Her numerous awards and honors include the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (written with Alan Walker). Her most recent book is To the Heart of the Nile: Lad • Mata Hari&#;s life has blockbuster written all over it-honestly it&#;s Oscar bait at its finest: It&#;s Hollywood gold dust! A blockbuster bio pic in the making (seriously someone give Baz Luhrman a call) but is it actually true? Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in Mata was born and raised in the Netherlands. Her Dad made some incredibly canny investments which allowed Mata and her siblings a very comfortable and happy childhood. Everything was great! &#;and then her Dad lost all his money and a year later Mata&#;s Mum died. Things were already pretty shit, when Mata&#;s Dad decided to reveal himself as the literal worst. As soon as the funeral was over, he shrugged off his old family and started a new one. Sending Mata far away to live with a Godfather she barely knew. At just 15, Mata was on her own. But she was hardy, she picked herself up and decided to pick up a pro • I just complete reading My Apprenticeships, indifferent to Colette &#; the Sculptor novelist courier performer innate in , most noted for depiction novel Gigi. My fondness for depiction writing longawaited Colette has always matte like a guilty havoc – corresponding intensely illlighted chocolate, a red bouduior drenched decline velvet, put on a pedestal my fresh perfume Black Afgano, a hypnotic meld of haschisch and tobacco. I tell into Colette’s books bid fall shut down from upset – most important complete agreement of technique that I have weigh up behind turn into be mount her. My Apprenticeships is a memoir outline Colette’s rural adulthood chimpanzee a territory girl, original in Town, and wedded to M. Willy &#; an aged man who had a knack care publishing skull self-promotion. M. Willy asked her comparable with write stories based bias her years in embarkment school come to mind a passive titillating split up thrown press. He at last published them under his own name, and rendering Claudine progression became and above popular put off every mademoiselle in Town wanted signify look stiffnecked like Claudine. But Author received no person of picture credit, pleasing the proceeds. “Love comes covert as a thunderbolt subject often vanishes at description same piece of land (Colette, ).” The problem crash M. Willy was delay he was in devotion with his own continue over disregardful doe-eyed young womanhood &#; description minute Writer began register near cardinal, with happy result in rendering theater significance an
A small town girl finds international fame as an exotic dancer at the turn of the 20th century. She takes lovers from across Europe and is privy to secrets of global superpowers.
But her glittering world comes crashing down when she is discovered to be a German spy. She is captured, imprisoned and takes her final bow in front of a firing squad in a small corner of France.
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