The spy who loved : the secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of the Second World War / Clare Mulley.
Publication details: London : Macmillan, 2012.Description: xix, 426 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780230759510 (hbk.)
- 0230759513 (hbk.)
- 9781447225652 (pbk.)
- 1447225651 (pbk.)
- 940.548641092 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife, she would become one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents.