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    War heroines

    Mar 06, 2024 3 minutes

    I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles: Women of the Resistance in World War One

    By Rick Stroud

    Simon & Schuster £22

    We think we know about the First World War, but all most people really know is snatches of war poetry and pictures of the Somme battlefield.

    We are largely ignorant of the fact that it was also an intelligence war, with an early version of the code-breaking Bletchley Park and organised resistance in Belgium and occupied France.

    When German soldiers

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