Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv
Part 1 Delilah's Disciples
1 Spy for the Continental Army Lydia Darragh, 1777 3
2 A Rainy Sunday in Greeneville Sarah Thompson, 1864 18
3 The "Alice Service" Louise de Bettignies, 1915 45
4 The Kaiser's Woman in New York Maria de Victorica, 1918 75
Part 2 Women Spies Come Of Age
5 Dolls in Mufti Velvalee Dickinson, 1944 101
6 Never So Few Britain's Heroines of World War II 115
7 Traitors and Crackpots Britain's Nonheroines of World War II 143
8 Spy from on High Barbara Slade, 1943 151
9 The Woman on Our Conscience Milada Horakova, 1950 164
Bibliography 193
Index 199