Christine
A Search for Christine Granville
$39.27
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2005
Summary
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 Bri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844082384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844082385 |
| Author: | Madeleine Masson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 133mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Gripping. - MAIL ON SUNDAY
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 TELEGRAPHThis biography, stark, earthy, uplifting and bloodstained, deserves to be read even by those who are tired of war books. In Christine, Dostoyevsky, I suspect, would have found a heroine to his taste - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHGripping. - MAIL ON SUNDAYAn exciting story… Christine was cool, fascinating, graceful, secretive, alternating a vivid warmth with remoteness, a lover of freedom and a law unto herself - DAILY TELEGRAPHThis biography, stark, earthy, uplifting and bloodstained, deserves to be read even by those who are tired of war books. In Christine, Dostoyevsky, I suspect, would have found a heroine to his taste - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Madeleine Masson
Madeleine Masson was born in Johannesburg and is one of South Africa’s most distinguished writers. She studied in Johannesburg, Paris and Munich and lived as a freelance journalist in Paris. She is a journalist, playwright and historian who has had over twenty books published.
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