Historical person
Walthère Dewé
1880–1944
Walthère Dewé was a Belgian engineer who became a leading organiser of clandestine intelligence against German occupation. During the First World War he was associated with the network remembered as La Dame Blanche, which gathered military information and moved reports through neutral territory to Allied intelligence.
Walthère Dewé was a Belgian engineer and intelligence organiser associated with clandestine networks in both world wars. Walthère Dewé was born in Liège, Belgium and died in Ixelles, Belgium.
In Helen Fry’s The White Lady, Walthère Dewé is one of the important organisers linking this tradition of Belgian resistance intelligence across the two conflicts. Drawing on declassified British and Belgian archives, Helen Fry examines recruitment, communications, railway and military observation, betrayal and the risks accepted by civilian agents. The book is a nonfiction institutional history rather than an espionage novel.
Non Fiction
Non Fiction featuring Walthère Dewé (1 book)
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