A01=Madeleine Masson
Author_Madeleine Masson
british agent
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churchill's favourite spy
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Product details
- ISBN 9781844082384
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 133 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Madeleine Masson (1912-2007) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris and gained a Ph.D. in Philosophy before going on to study Art and Humanities in Munich. She published twenty-seven books and plays, both fiction and non-fiction, including Edwina, Birds of Passage and I Never Kissed Paris Goodbye. As a journalist, Madeleine had worked on the Rand Daily Mail, the Cape Times and as a freelance journalist in Paris.
