{"product_id":"the-spy-who-loved-the-secrets-and-lives-of-christine-granville","title":"The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville","description":"The Untold Story of Britains First Female Special Agent of World War II In June 1952  a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife  Granville would become one of Britains most daring and highly decorated special agents. Having fled to Britain on the outbreak of war  she was recruited by the intelligence services and took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into occupied Poland  served in Egypt and North Africa  and was later parachuted behind enemy lines into France  where an agents life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage  quick wit  and determination won her release from arrest more than once  and saved the lives of several fellow officersincluding one of her many loversjust hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More importantly  the intelligence she gathered in her espionage was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort  and she was awarded the George Medal  the OBE  and the Croix de Guerre. Granville exercised a mesmeric power on those who knew her. In The Spy Who Loved  acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley tells the extraordinary history of this charismatic  difficult  fearless  and altogether extraordinary woman.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44901356339253,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250030323","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1250030323.jpg?v=1767696876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-spy-who-loved-the-secrets-and-lives-of-christine-granville","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}