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allied Special Operations Executive
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british secret agent
british secret agent|women in history
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Croix de Guerre
dachau concentration camp
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espionage
F section
french resistance
george cross
Jeanne-Marie Renier
liberte
liberty
Madeleine
moscow
Noor Inayat Khan
Nora Baker
second world war
secret agent
SOE
SOE agent
the life of noor inayat khan
tiger of mysore
tipu sultan
women in history
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
women's history
world war 2
world war ii
world war two
ww2
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9780750950565
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 124 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2008
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian prince, Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of Mysore), who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. Shrabani Basu tells the moving story of Noor’s life, from her birth in Moscow – where her father was a Sufi preacher – to her capture by the Germans. Noor was one of only three women SOE agents awarded the George Cross and, under torture, revealed nothing, not even her real name. Kept in solitary confinement, her hands and feet chained together, Noor was starved and beaten, but the Germans could not break her spirit. Ten months after she was captured, she was taken to Dachau concentration camp and, on 13 September 1944, she was shot. Her last word was ‘Liberté.’
SHRABANI BASU is a journalist and Sunday Times best-selling author. Her books include the critically acclaimed The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer and Victoria & Abdul (now a major Oscar-nominated motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench). She is the founder of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and an ambassador for the RAF Museum. She is a frequent commentator on Indian history and Empire on radio and television, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of London for services to literature.
