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AN INDIAN PRINCESS, WHO IS IN THE LINEAGE OF TIPU SULTAN, PARTICIPATES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, SHE SPIES FOR THE BRITISH. THIS BRAVE AND FIERCE TIGRESS GETS CAUGHT BY THE GERMANS, AS A RESULT OF TREACHERY. HER FUTURE IS CLEAR; SHE SUFFERS IMMENSE PAINS AT THE HANDS OF GERMANS.…
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1 author picked Spy Princess as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Knowing about Noor Inayat Khan’s life is crucial to understanding why people become spies; her story is utterly startling.
I learned about Noor (codename Madeleine) while doing research in London for my fifth book. One of the people I interviewed was well-informed about the women who were trained as spies in WWII for Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE).
During that trip, someone left a copy of her biography, Spy Princess (a 2006 British publication), for me at the hotel front desk; to this day, I don’t know who. I read it on the flight back to the U.S. and…
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