Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari, (Paperback)

from keylawk

It is sometimes easy, sometimes difficult. Writing about a woman who was executed, by a great Power, for really nothing. We are fast closing upon the 100th anniversary of Mata Hari's execution in 1917. Under her married name, she is the most famous of the MacLeods, and although well-known, comple...

from PallanDavid

Although on the whole this biography of Mata Hari is very interesting and easy to read, I have to say that the beginning of the book had me a little mixed up. The author begins with a narrative of the subject's early years in Holland then suddenly gives a history of the life of Dutch military and...

from Bodagirl

It's very sympathetic to Mata Hari and the author continuously mentions that "no other historian" or "no other biography" looked into some of her sources. I would have liked it more if the prose had been more neutral; Shipman is very persuasive with the case she builds against Mata Hari's ex-husb...