What "acceptable" roles have women taken in war that have still put them in the thick of the action? The ultimately tragic spy Mata Hari was the archetypal "femme fatale", the nun-like Florence Nightingale the selfless field nurse. Or were they? In Spies and Angels we look at the contribution of both women.

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