The Spy Who Loved
The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II.
Contents:
Stories of trust and betrayal -- Borderlands -- Two weddings and a war -- Hungarian embraces -- Polish resistance -- A string of arrests -- Travels in an opel -- Cold in Cairo -- The beautiful spy -- Our woman in Algiers -- A French occupation -- The battle of Vercors -- Switching allegiances -- Operation liberté -- Mission impossible -- Second-class citizen -- Deep water -- Brutal end -- The afterlife of Christine Granville.
Subjects:
Granville, Christine, 1908-1952.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
Granville, Christine, 1908-1952.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
ISBN:
9781250030320 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Skarbek, Krystyna | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-411) and index.