LES FEMMES DE L'OMBRE

Even more secret than the male secret agents, here are the female ones. The ones we never hear about, who have been active in the shadows since the beginning of time but who are upstaged by the men.

In this book, the author reveals the true story of women's involvement in the secret services. It began in the 16th century, when Cromwell's England coined the term “she-intelligencers”. And it continues today, when an American woman, Gina Haspel, is in charge of the CIA. This palpitating real-life thriller is brimming with portraits, testimonies and revelations. On every page, a discovery: the truth about Mata Hari or Milady de Winter; spies in the Ancien Régime, the American Civil War, the Dreyfus affair; the “unknown women soldiers” of the Great War; Stalin and Hitler's invisible female front; the heroines and traitors of the Occupation; the women leaders of the Resistance networks; Churchill's saboteurs; Roosevelt's propaganda agents; and the women spies in the service of the DGSE, Mossad, the English MI6, the Russian SVR, the Chinese Guoanbu and the CIA.
A historian, journalist and teacher, contributor to Le Figaro Magazine and Le Point, RÉMI KAUFFER has published with Perrin Histoire mondiale des services secrets (A World History of Secret Services); Kang Sheng, le maître espion de Mao (Kang Sheng, Mao's master spy); Les Maîtres de l'espionnage (Masters of Espionage); and Les Hommes du président (The President's Men).