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Femme Fatale : Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060817283
ISBN-139780060817282
eBay Product ID (ePID)57202899
Product Key Features
Book TitleFemme Fatale : Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicEspionage, General
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorPat Shipman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight24.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill.|9780060817282|
SynopsisIn 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 throughout wartorn 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. Her blissful Dutch childhood as Margaretha Zelle ended abruptly with her parents' emotionally scarring divorce and, shortly after, her mother's death. Shuttled off to reluctant relations, Margaretha impulsively married a much older man, who gave her syphilis (then incurable) and took her to the Dutch East Indies, where the unhappy marriage exploded into vicious hatred following the death of their oldest child. Fleeing her tragic marriage, she reinvented herself as Mata Hari, a scandalously sensual dancer with an Indies name and an Indies aura about her novel "artistic" dances. Mata Hari's life reads like both an action-packed adventure tale and passionate, poignant romance. Shipman reveals new information about this beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous woman, tracing the web of connections between her professional and personal lives. Once called "an orchid in a field of dandelions," Mata Hari was one of a kind, a rich and multifaceted personality whose ambitions and talents propelled herbreathtaking rise--and her tragic fall., 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 throughout wartorn 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. Her blissful Dutch childhood as Margaretha Zelle ended abruptly with her parents' emotionally scarring divorce and, shortly after, her mother's death. Shuttled off to reluctant relations, Margaretha impulsively married a much older man, who gave her syphilis (then incurable) and took her to the Dutch East Indies, where the unhappy marriage exploded into vicious hatred following the death of their oldest child. Fleeing her tragic marriage, she reinvented herself as Mata Hari, a scandalously sensual dancer with an Indies name and an Indies aura about her novel "artistic" dances. Mata Hari's life reads like both an action-packed adventure tale and passionate, poignant romance. Shipman reveals new information about this beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous woman, tracing the web of connections between her professional and personal lives. Once called "an orchid in a field of dandelions," Mata Hari was one of a kind, a rich and multifaceted personality whose ambitions and talents propelled her breathtaking rise--and her tragic fall., In this persuasive new biography, Shipman takes a fresh look at the alluring, scandalous, and most notorious female spy in history.
LC Classification NumberD639
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- Oct 30, 2015
Mata Hari
I'm not the type of person that sits down and reads, but on this book I could not put it down, I've even checked some of the research, and it is true. After reading this book, I come away with the thought a person of her time be branded one thing, when it was another. All of this, to cover up the real truth. She was brave, and innocent of those crimes. Makes you stop and think!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
