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The Woman Who Fought an Empire : Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring /

Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the...

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Main Author: Wallance, Gregory (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- I will be really happy when I am home -- Two cannot take three places--what is missing is missing -- Don't you feel that a new generation is born? -- What sights her eyes have seen -- They must attack immediately -- The wait -- Aaron Aaronsohn's journey -- One of your men came across the desert -- What about Avshalom? -- Black nights -- What I have done, I have done purely for my people and my country -- To Sarah -- We are watched by a thousand eyes -- Everywhere I turn I feel his absence -- The situation is getting worse -- She is worth a hundred men -- The boys will turn into green crowned date palms. 
520 |a Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization's leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale. 
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