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Noor Inayat Khan Alias Nora Baker, and codenamed Madeleine, was a beautiful and talented princess.  Before the war, she had bagged a degree in Child Psychology, had written a lot of poetry, as well as many children's stories.  Her stories appeared in Paris newspapers and on French radio.  By the time she was twenty five years old, her book, Twenty Jataka Tales, had been published in France, Britain and the United States.  Noor was also an accomplished musician.  Her greatest love was music and she was said to have played the harp beautifully. WW2 began the same year her book was published, and during 1940, Germany invaded France.  Noor and her family became refugees and just managed to get on the last boat leaving the French coast for Britain. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and trained to become a wireless operator. Her excellent radio skills and fluent French brought her to the attention of SOE (The...

Britain's Finest Female Spy This lady risked her life so many times, solved problems by creating solutions, and many times acted as a catalyst to bring about, and in many cases, brilliant solutions to the problem of the Nazis during the second world war. She died after the war in June 1952, murdered by someone she thought was her friend, it was totally unexpected.  To be murdered by a friend during the peace. A feat her professional enemies, crack troops, double agents and the Gestapo tried to achieve and failed to do, every single time.  She was at one time, at the top of the Gestapo most wanted list during World War 2. Christine Granville O.B.E.,  George Medal and the Croix de Guerre, was the daughter of a Polish Count, Jerzy Skarbek. Her real name was Maria Krystyna Skarbek. The amazing exploits of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's favourite spy is recounted by the British documentary series, Secret War, below. It's not a stretch to speculate t...