This book examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I.
Gary Edward Girod received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 2021. He researches World War I-era domestic intelligence and labor. His article "The women who make the guns" (2019) examines women munition workers in Paris and Glasgow between 1914 and 1919.