Spy Memoir

For over 230 years, American schoolchildren have been taught about the story of Nathan Hale, or at least a legend of it, and in the process the myth of Hale and his apocryphal final words have immortalized the young man as America's most famous spy, despite his failed mission.

Margeretha Geertruida Zelle, better known to history by the exotic, glamorous name of Mata Hari, was a woman who profited greatly from the power of illusion during much of her brief life. Born to a hatter named Adam Zelle and his wife Antje van der Meulen, Mata Hari moved from a financially rewarding but miserable marriage to circus performances to exotic dancing and celebrity to the role of ostensible international spy in an arc that ended tragically in front of a French firing squad.

La biografía de una mujer envuelta en un halo de leyenda irresistible. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, su verdadero nombre, fue una famosa cortesana, espía y bailarina holandesa de striptease, condenada a muerte por espionaje y ejecutada durante la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.