The spy who loved the secrets and lives of Christine Granville
Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II.
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin,
2013, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Stories of trust and betrayal
- Borderlands
- Two weddings and a war
- Hungarian embraces
- Polish resistance
- A string of arrests
- Travels in an Opel
- Cold in Cairo
- The beautiful spy
- Our woman in Algiers
- A French occupation
- The Battle of Vercors
- Switching allegiances
- Operation LiberteĢ
- Mission impossible
- Second-class citizen
- Deep water
- Brutal end
- Epilogue: The afterlife of Christine Granville
- My search for Christine Granville : a note on sources
- Appendix I: Christine "preferred dogs to children" : a note on Christine Granville's childlessness
- Appendix II: She "murdered me" Muldowney said : a note on Dennis Muldowney.
