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020 _a9781447201182
040 _aKenya National Library Service
082 _a940.54 MUL
245 _aThe spy who loved :
_bthe secrets and lives of one of Britain's bravest wartime heroines /
_cClare Mulley.
300 _axix, 426 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c18 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520 _aIn 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.
650 _aWomen spies -- Fiction
650 _aHistory of Europe
650 _aBiography
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