Madeleine - The Story of Noor Inayat Khan, George Cross, M.B.E., Croix De Guerre with Gold Star
by Fuller, Jean Overton; Jepson, Selwyn (Foreword)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance. She was betrayed, captured, and executed at Dachau." - Wikipedia. "My object in writing has been to make known the story of a brave woman, a woman whose nobility of character was as much appreciated by the Germans, who were her adversaries in war, as by her friends at home - perhaps even more keenly by them, because they knew her in the hour of her greatest trial. Their testimonies are almost unbearably eloquent." - Preface. Foreword by Selwyn Jepson, a senior SOE recruiting officer. (Wikipedia) [6]-192 pp. Black and white frontis photo portrait of subject. Contents gently tanned otherwise very clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to original blue boards. No dust jacket. A quality example of this extraordinary account.; Sm 8vo .
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- Title
- Madeleine - The Story of Noor Inayat Khan, George Cross, M.B.E., Croix De Guerre with Gold Star
- Author
- Fuller, Jean Overton; Jepson, Selwyn (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Noor Inayat Khan, SOE, Special Operations Executive, French Resistance, George Cross Recipients
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Covert Operations;
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