The spy who loved : the secrets and lives of Christine Granville / Clare Mulley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulley, Clare.

Contributor:

Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Granville, Christine, 1908-1952.

Women spies--Great Britain--Biography.

Spies--Great Britain--Biography.

Spies.

Women spies.

Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.

Secret service.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.

Summary:

Explores the life and career of one of Britain's most daring and highly decorated special agents, whose gathered intelligence and courage provided a significant contribution to the Allied war effort in World War II.

Contents:

Preface: Stories of Trust and Betrayal

Borderlands

Two Weddings and a War

Hungarian Embraces

Polish Resistance

A String of Arrests

Travels in an Opel

Cold in Cairo

The Beautiful Spy

Our Woman in Algiers

A French Occupation

The Battle of Vercors

Switching Allegiances

Operation Liberte?

Mission Impossible

Second-Class Citizen

Deep Water

Brutal End

Epilogue: The Afterlife of Christine Granville

My Search for Christine Granville : a note on sources

Appendix I: Christine "preferred dogs to children" : a note on Christine Granville's childlessness

Appendix II: She "murdered me" Muldowney said : a note on Dennis Muldowney.

Notes:

"First published in the UK by Macmillan"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-411) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Roberta S. & Leonard S. Leibman, W'53 Fund.

ISBN:

9781250030320

1250030323

1250030331

9781250030337

OCLC:

811597548