Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Wallach Janet
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Wallach Janet The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. Hired as a society reporter, when…
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Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Wallach Janet
The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. 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. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world warsBorn 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.
Sent to Moscow, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy.
Flirting with Danger