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In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth.

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The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding. --Kirkus Reviews [E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill.--Bloomberg News An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit. --Los Angeles Times An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit. --Los Angeles Times The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding. --Kirkus Reviews [E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari s rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist s skill.--Bloomberg News -An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman.---Atlanta Journal-Constitution -Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit.---Los Angeles Times -The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding.---Kirkus Reviews -[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill.--Bloomberg News

[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill. -- Bloomberg News

[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari s rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist s skill.--Bloomberg News

[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill.--Bloomberg News An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit. --Los Angeles Times The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding. --Kirkus Reviews An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding. --Kirkus Reviews Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit. --Los Angeles Times [E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari s rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist s skill.--Bloomberg News -Both suspenseful and shocking . . . Shipman tells her story with interest and spirit.---Los Angeles Times -[E]ngrossing . . . casting Mata Hari's rise and fall against the background of her life, the turmoil of World War I and, ultimately, the moral standards of the era. . . . Shipman teases out the details with a novelist's skill.--Bloomberg News -An engrossing tale that sheds new light on a mysterious woman.---Atlanta Journal-Constitution -The melodramatic true story of a mythic grand horizontal, told with clarity and understanding.---Kirkus Reviews

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Pat Shipman is the author of eight previous books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Her numerous awards and honors include the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (written with Alan Walker). Her most recent book is To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa. She is currently an adjunct professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

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