The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

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Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the unbelievable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. 

Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a an identical fate. Sarah joined Nili, sooner or later rising to develop into the organization’s leader. Operating in the back of enemy lines, she and her spies furnished necessary information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she used to be caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To give protection to her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set on the birth of the up to date Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.



 


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