02312nam a22002537a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200230008810000260011124500470013726000250018430000310020936500240024052115600026465000230182465000260184765000180187370000270189194200120191899900190193095201090194920220203093838.0220202b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a8174364420  cAL  aeng  223a355.2092bBASS  aSharabani Basu916048  aSpy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan  aUKbRoli Booksc2006  axxii,234 p.bHBc22x14 cm.  b395.00c₹d395.00  aOn 13 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan, the first female wireless operator to be flown into occupied France, was shot at Dachau. The descendant of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, Noor was born in Moscow and raised in the Sufi style of Islam. From this unlikely background she became the only Asian secret agent in Europe in World War II, was one of three women in the SOE to be awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Shrabani Basu's new book tells the full story of this extraordinarily heroic woman. Noor was brought up in France and Britain and joined the Red Cross when world War II broke out. In Britain, Noor trained as a wireless operator before being recruited by the SOE. Such was the urgent demand for radio operators that she was sent to France before her training was completed. Working under the code name of Madeleine, she joined a group that sabotaged communication lines. But disaster struck quickly and within days, her circuit collapsed and her colleagues were arrested. Though instructed by her controller, the famous Maurice Buckmaster, to return home, she refused to abandon her post as she was the last radio operator left in Paris. For a time she successfully dodged the Gestapo, but by late 1943 her luck had run out. She was betrayed, arrested and imprisoned at Avenue Foch. Undaunted, she made two dramatic escape attempts, but was recaptured and sent to Germany. Here she was interrogated and tortured and finally sent to Dachau, where she was shot. The Germans had learned nothing from her - not even her real name.  aWomen Spies915982  aSecret Service915983  aFrance915984  aBASU (Shrabani)915985  2ddccGF  c221410d221410  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24l0o355.2092 BASSpGF02190r2022-02-02 00:00:00w2022-02-02yGF