Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan (Record no. 221410)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 8174364420
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Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 355.2092
Item number BASS
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Personal name Sharabani Basu
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9 (RLIN) 16048
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. UK
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Roli Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii,234 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 22x14 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 395.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing 395.00
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note On 13 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan, the first female wireless operator to be flown into occupied France, was shot at Dachau. The descendant of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, Noor was born in Moscow and raised in the Sufi style of Islam. From this unlikely background she became the only Asian secret agent in Europe in World War II, was one of three women in the SOE to be awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Shrabani Basu's new book tells the full story of this extraordinarily heroic woman. Noor was brought up in France and Britain and joined the Red Cross when world War II broke out. In Britain, Noor trained as a wireless operator before being recruited by the SOE. Such was the urgent demand for radio operators that she was sent to France before her training was completed. Working under the code name of Madeleine, she joined a group that sabotaged communication lines. But disaster struck quickly and within days, her circuit collapsed and her colleagues were arrested. Though instructed by her controller, the famous Maurice Buckmaster, to return home, she refused to abandon her post as she was the last radio operator left in Paris. For a time she successfully dodged the Gestapo, but by late 1943 her luck had run out. She was betrayed, arrested and imprisoned at Avenue Foch. Undaunted, she made two dramatic escape attempts, but was recaptured and sent to Germany. Here she was interrogated and tortured and finally sent to Dachau, where she was shot. The Germans had learned nothing from her - not even her real name.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Women Spies
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Secret Service
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Topical term or geographic name entry element France
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Personal name BASU (Shrabani)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   355.2092 BASS GF02190 02/02/2022 02/02/2022 George Fernandes Collections