ISBN: 9780230759510
BINDING: Hardback
CONDITION: Used - very good
PUBLISHED: 2012
DESCRIPTION: Clare Mulley The Spy who loved - the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of World War II
'Just weeks after Germany invaded her homeland, Christine Granville, (born Krystyna Skarbek), the daughter of a Polish aristocrat, arrived in London and demanded to work for the British Secret Service. Described in an intelligence report as a great adventuress and absolutely fearless, she became one of the SOEs most daring, determined and highly decorated agents. This biography tells the story of a charismatic woman who loved men and sex, adrenalin and adventure, but found it hard to adjust to post-war life. ' offmint
