"The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of
World War II"
In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a
hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was
Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising;
that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.
The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy
Jewish wife, Granville would become one of Britain's most daring
and highly decorated special agents. Having fled to Britain on the
outbreak of war, she was recruited by the intelligence services and
took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High
Tatras into occupied Poland, served in Egypt and North Africa, and
was later parachuted behind enemy lines into France, where an
agent's life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage, quick wit,
and determination won her release from arrest more than once, and
saved the lives of several fellow officers--including one of her
many lovers--just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More
importantly, the intelligence she gathered in her espionage was a
significant contribution to the Allied war effort, and she was
awarded the George Medal, the OBE, and the Croix de Guerre.
Granville exercised a mesmeric power on those who knew her. In
"The Spy Who Loved"," " acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley tells the
extraordinary history of this charismatic, difficult, fearless, and
altogether extraordinary woman.
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