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Christine: SOE Agent and Churchill's Favourite Spy: A Search for Christine Granville (Paperback)

by Madeleine Masson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (6 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844082385
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844082384
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,946 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An exciting story... Christine was cool, fascinating, graceful, secretive, alternating a vivid warmth with remoteness, a lover of freedom and a law unto herself' Daily Telegraph 'This biography, stark, earthy, uplifting and bloodstained, deserve


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Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and said to have been Churchill's 'favourite spy', was murdered, aged 37, in a London Hotel in 1952. Her actions as a British secret agent in Poland, Hungary and France were legendary even in her lifetime and she repeatedly risked her life to undertake dangerous missions. Her exploits began after the fall of Poland when she became a British agent; organising the escape of British prisoners-of-war, Polish pilots and refugees and returning to Poland, her homeland, to set up escape routes and report on German troop movements. Her capture by the Gestapo led to a dramatic escape from Budapest in the boot of a car followed by travels through Turkey and Syria to Cairo. Christine is an inspiring and unforgettable true story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Christine, 2 Sep 2007
The story of Christine Granville is pure adventure from start to finish. The pages take you from her birth, and adventurous upbringing including terrible pranks played on her teachers, through the war years all over Europe, Africa etc to after the war and finally her murder. If you want to be there with Christine this book gives you it. If you want the understanding what it was like to be a undercover spy and SOE agent then this book gives you it. Theres romance, betrayal, laughter, and tears. This books should be on the corriculum for every women to read. I like this book so much I contacted the publisher. I cant recommend it more. Madeleine Masson did Christine Granville proud as if she was the women herself. You will never regret reading this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars super story, 22 Sep 2009
A superb agent, much under rated and recognised, but the most successful. She talked her comrades out of a gestapo jail and fooled gestapo officers many a time. An astounding life. What a shame that such an exceptional woman was murdered by a mere mortal in peace time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good insight, 4 Sep 2009
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The author has really done a good job with this book and portraying the many faces of Christine. Interesting person, interesting life and mysterious death. All you could want and more!
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