The Woman Who Fought an Empire
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
9781640126763 (ISBN)
Though she only lived to be twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman-the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine-who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring.
Amid the outbreak of World War I, Aaronsohn learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Aaronsohn, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. She joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization’s leader, and she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, is an espionage thriller that rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femmes fatales.
Gregory J. Wallance is a lawyer and writer in New York City, a former federal prosecutor, and a longtime human rights activist. He is the author of America’s Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR’s State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy and Into Siberia: George Kennan’s Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia. Wallance has written op-eds for the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal and is a contributor for The Hill.
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Major Characters
Introduction
1. I Will Be Really Happy When I Am Home
2. Two Cannot Take Three Places-What Is Missing Is Missing
3. Don’t You Feel That a New Generation Is Born?
4. What Sights Her Eyes Have Seen
5. They Must Attack Immediately
6. The Wait
7. Aaron Aaronsohn’s Journey
8. One of Your Men Came across the Desert
9. What about Avshalom?
10. Black Nights
11. What I Have Done, I Have Done Purely for My People and My Country
12. To Sarah
13. We Are Watched by a Thousand Eyes
14. Everywhere I Turn I Feel His Absence
15. The Situation Is Getting Worse
16. She Is Worth a Hundred Men
17. The Boys Will Turn into Green Crowned Date Palms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 18 photographs, 2 maps, index |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781640126763 / 9781640126763 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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