MacMillan, 2012, Softcover, Book Condition: Fine, First

First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 426 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive 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 aristocratic and his wealthy Jewish wife, she would become one of Britain?s most daring and highly decorated secret agents. Having fled Poland on the outbreak of war, she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE, and took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into Poland, served in Egypt and North Africa and was later parachuted into Occupied France, where an agent?s life expectancy was only six weeks. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781447225652. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3689.