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Shrabani Basu - Spy Princess, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Spy Princess

The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

Av Shrabani Basu

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‘One of the most inspirational stories of World War II … Reading this book is like watching a butterfly trapped in a net.’ – Daily MailThis is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian prince, Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of Mysore), who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II.In this updated twentieth-anniversary edition of Spy Princess, Shrabani Basu tells the moving story of Noor’s life, from her birth in Moscow – where her father was a Sufi preacher – to her capture by the Germans. Noor was one of only three women SOE agents awarded the George Cross and, under torture, revealed nothing, not even her real name.Kept in solitary confinement, her hands and feet chained together, Noor was starved and beaten, but the Germans could not break her spirit. Ten months after she was captured, she was taken to Dachau concentration camp and, on 13 September 1944, she was shot. Her last word was ‘Liberté’.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-25
  • Mått: 191 x 14 x 129 mm
  • Vikt: 310 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 318
  • Förlag: The History Press Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781837050451
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SHRABANI BASU is a journalist and Sunday Times best-selling author. Her books include the critically acclaimed The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer and Victoria & Abdul (now a major Oscar-nominated motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench). She is the founder of the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and an ambassador for the RAF Museum. She is a frequent commentator on Indian history and Empire on radio and television, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of London for services to literature.

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‘The inspiring Noor Inayat Khan – posthumous holder of the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre, a Muslim princess and Indian nationalist who gave everything for our freedom – ought to be as popular a heroine in British schools as Florence Nightingale once was. Basu's moving and scrupulous biography might help that to happen.’

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