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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...

On The Planet Is sitting up in his bed. His mind is in a turmoil, whirring in a hundred different directions all at once. He wants to start writing again... what can he post today that will bring some satisfaction that he is at least beginning to write again? Maybe he'll write about the twat that loves to post crap on Twitter. It's an obvious truth that he doesn't like twats who post crap on Twitter.com. He suddenly gets a flash from the past. It's funny how the mind works that he can remember a time period thirty years before with absolute clarity. A time when things were so real while at the same time, things weren't exactly what they seemed. Hindsight isn't twenty twenty, hindsight is a bitch! He needs an angle to be able to tell just one story from those days. In years, it was such a long time ago but in his head, those things seem like it was just yesterday. Should he do a first person narrative? Goodness No! It wouldn't work, t...