My fourth chapter examines women who sought to enter the literary market in the 1920s. It looks at two groups of female writers who used their war experiences as the raw material for their published works with the aim of entering the male-dominated ‘war literature’ market: nurses and women who were part of resistance movements in occupied France and Belgium. I consider how these women adapted the genres created by male writers in order to present themselves as war writers. In order to do so they cast themselves as war veterans, thereby endowing their autobiographical narratives with authenticity and authority. As I will show, sometimes this resulted in a degree of reinvention and fictionalisation to fit in with the generic tradition established by male combat writers. An analysis of the memoirs of female members of Resistance networks, for example, reveals the importance of aligning themselves to positive models of service and self-sacrifice associated with war heroism in order to distance themselves from widespread cultural stereotypes of female spies as untrustworthy prostitutes, often embodied in the figure of Mata Hari.