Showing Christine: SOE agent and Churchill's favourite spy by Madeleine Masson

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2006-4-1 Pages: 320 Publisher: little brown Christine Granville. GM. OBE and Croix de Guerre. one ofthe most successful women agents of the Second World War and saidto have been Churchills favourite spy. was murdered. aged 37. ina London Hotel in 1952. Her actions as a British secret agent inPoland. Hungary and France were legendary even in her lifetime andshe repeatedly risked her life to undertake dangerous missions Herexploits began after the fall of Poland when she became a Britishagent.; organising the escape of British prisoners-of-war. Polishpilots and refugees and returning to Poland. her homeland. to setup escape routes and report on German troop movements. Her captureby the Gestapo led to a dramatic escape from Budapest in the bootof a car followed by travels through Turkey and Syria to Cairo.Christine is an inspiring and unfor...