Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan - Softcover

Basu, Shrabani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930872789 ISBN 13: 9780930872786

Publisher: Omega Pubns, 2007

Synopsis

roduct Description (1000 characters, including spaces): *This is the remarkable biography of Noor Inayat Khan, code namedMadeleine. The first woman wireless transmitter in occupied France during WWII, she was trained by Britain's SOE and assumed the most dangerous resistance post in underground Paris. Betrayed into the hands of the Gestapo, Noor resisted intensive interrogation, severe deprivation and torture with courage and silence, revealing nothing to her captors, not even her own name. She was executed at Dachau in 1944.Spy Princess details Noor's inspiring life from birth to death, incorporating information from her family, friends, witnesses, andofficial records including recently released personal files of SOEoperatives. It is the story of a young woman who lived with grace, beauty, courage and determination, and who bravely offering the ultimate sacrifice of her own life in service of her ideals. Her last word was Liberte.

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Review:

?The true life of Noor Inayat Khan is the stuff legends are made of. It makes for compelling reading, ? wrote novelist, Khushwant Singh about Spy Princess?. Christopher Hudson from the Daily Mail newspaper commented, ?It's one of the most inspirational stories of World War II; reading this book is like watching a butterfly trapped in a net.?

About the Author:

Shrabani Basu lives in London where she is a correspondent for the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group. She writes for the Telegraph, Sunday magazine and other publications in the group. She is the author of Curry (Sutton 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Omega Pubns
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0930872789
• ISBN 13: 9780930872786
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234