Free Download Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNR2ZJND | 2023 | 9 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Janet Wallach
Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars. Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right.
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