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A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, SpyStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionIn this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; a woman whose adult life was a fantastical web of lies, half-truths and magnetic sexuality that captivated men. Following the death of a young son and a bitter divorce, Mata Hari reinvented herself as an exotic dancer in Paris, before finally taking up the life of a courtesan. She could have remained a half-forgotten member of France's grande horizontale were it not for the First World War and her disastrous decision to become embroiled in espionage. Author descriptionMARY W. CRAIG is a previous Carnegie scholar of the University of Glasgow where she gained a MLItt in history. She is a working historian specialising in the history of central Europe between 1848 and 1933. She also works as a community archivist involved in the creation of archival systems that protect original historical materials while increasing their accessibility to researchers and the general public. |