Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan

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Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
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Spy Princess is the remarkable biography of Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, the daughter of the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan. Code-named Madeleine, Noor-un-nisa was the first female wireless transmitter in Nazi-occupied France during WWII; she was trained by Britain's SOE and assumed the most dangerous resistance post in underground Paris. She was eventually betrayed into the hands of the Gestapo and subsequently executed at Dachau in 1944.

Courage, determination, strength, sweetness, refinement, and sensitivity... These aren't qualities we think of going together. A person who has these qualities beautifully developed in a personality of nobility is rare indeed. We do have a wonderful example in our spiritual family, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan, eldest daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Sufi Master who is the source of our spiritual lineage.

Noor-un-nisa was an artist, musician, writer of children's stories, and poet. She was also one of the bravest, most intrepid, and most effective spies in the British Secret Service during World War II. I was moved to tears on page 1 of this wonderful biography by Shrabani Basu, and I learned many new things about Noor-un-nisa.
--Asatar Bair, President of the IAM University of the Heart

There have been several biographies of Noor-un-nisa, but Spy Princess contains new documents declassified by the British Government, as well as new interviews with family members, including one of the last interviews given by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, the brother of Noor-un-nisa, before his passing in 2004.

The story of Noor Inayat Khan transcends nations and cultures. It is an intensely human story of a woman brought up to tell the truth and eschew violence. Yet she fought as a spy and died in a Nazi concentration camp with the word "Liberte" on her lips. Noor was Indian and french and British, a Sufi and a fighter, a gentle musician and a brave soldier. This is why her appeal is cosmopolitan.
--Lord Meghnad Desai and Kishwar Desai

Contents

Preface by Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Foreword by M.R.D. Foot
Acknowledgements
Map
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1. Babuli
Chapter 2. Fazal Manzil
Chapter 3. Flight and Fight
Chapter 4. Setting Europe Ablaze
Chapter 5. Codes and Cover Stories
Chapter 6. Leaving England
Chapter 7. Joining the Circuit
Chapter 8. The Fall of Prosper
Chapter 9. Poste Madeleine
Chapter 10. Prisoner of the Gestapo
Aftermath
Appendix I: Circuits Linked to Prosper
Appendix II: Agents and Resistance members who worked with Noor and the Prosper Circuit
Appendix III: Chronology
Appendix IV: Indians awarded the Victoria Cross and the George Cross 1939-1945
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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