behind the curtain (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
(Images of Mata Hari, on stage and off)Here is a coupling of mini-reviews from two books I finished over the holidays.Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari Pat Shipman, 2008, ISBN: 0060817313I didn't know much about...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Zelle, an exotic dancer who was lured into the spy business during World War I. The French, who recruited her, suspected her of being a double agent and sentenced her to death. Read an eyewitness account of her execution on October 15, 1917, from Henry Wales, a [...]
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
From Eyewitness to History: "The first intimation she received that her plea had been denied was when she was led at daybreak from her cell in the Saint-Lazare prison to a waiting automobile and then rushed to the barracks where the firing squad awaited her. Never once had the iron will ...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on both sides of the law have causes a drastic drop in the case clearance rate. * The Execution of Mata Hari , 1917. An eyewitness account of last moments for the exotic dancer turned spy. (via Cynical-C ) * Totally inappropriate coloring books . Which makes them instant collector’s items, of course.
