Spy Princess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spy Princess write by Shrabani Basu. This book was released on 2011-04-11. Spy Princess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian prince, Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of Mysore), who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. Shrabani Basu tells the moving story of Noor's life, from her birth in Moscow – where her father was a Sufi preacher – to her capture by the Germans. Noor was one of only three women SOE agents awarded the George Cross and, under torture, revealed nothing, not even her real name. Kept in solitary confinement, her hands and feet chained together, Noor was starved and beaten, but the Germans could not break her spirit. Ten months after she was captured, she was taken to Dachau concentration camp and, on 13 September 1944, she was shot. Her last word was 'Liberté.'
Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan write by Jean Overton Fuller. This book was released on 2019-10-20. Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE's first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the George Cross MBE and Croix de Guerre with Gold Star for her outstanding wartime service and heroism on behalf of the Allied cause, Noor's remarkable and inspiring life have been commemorated in numerous war memorials, WWII histories, and several films. Born in 1914 to an American mother, Ora Ray Baker, and an Indian Sufi father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Noor was raised in France, studying musical composition, piano, and harp under Nadia Boulanger at the Ecole Normale de Musique, and child psychology at the Sorbonne. Her stories for children appeared in Le Figaro and were broadcast over Radiodiffusion Francaise, and her first book Twenty Jataka Tales was published in London. Her career as a writer was interrupted by the German invasion of France in 1940. The Inayat Khan family sought refuge in England, and Noor enlisted in the WAAF where she trained as a wireless transmitter. Her Parisian background and wireless skills led to her recruitment by the SOE (Special Operations Executive). After further training, in June, 1943, she was secretly flown back to France where she began her undercover work for the Allied cause under the code name "Madeleine." Constantly on the move between multiple locations and using false identities, Noor transmitted messages for the SOE's French and RF (R publique Fran aise) sections, and for De Gaulle's Free French network. Betrayed by an acquaintance, she was captured by the Gestapo in October, 1943, and held for prolonged interrogation at the Sicherheitsdienst headquarters in Paris. After repeated escape attempts, she was considered to be a dangerous prisoner and was transferred to Pforzheim prison in Germany, where she was held in maximum security and solitary confinement. As the war drew to an end in the fall of 1944, Noor was transported to Dachau. Her last word before execution was "Libert " This new edition of Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine includes previously unpublished material including a retrospective by Noor's brother, Vilayat Inayat Khan, the friendship of Noor and the author, and further research on Noor's life and the SOE.
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noor Inayat Khan write by Sufiya Ahmed. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Noor Inayat Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor Inayat Khan.
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noor Inayat Khan write by Gaby Halberstam. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Noor Inayat Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The incredible story of an Indian Muslim pacifist who was one of the great Allied heroines of the Second World War
Dream Flowers
Dream Flowers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dream Flowers write by Noor Inayat Khan. This book was released on 2020-08. Dream Flowers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Noor Inayat Khan, GC, (1914-1944) is remembered as an outstanding hero of the Second World War. She was also a folklorist and writer of considerable gifts. Dream Flowers collects her major works, and additionally includes a number of never-before-published pieces. The introduction elucidates the author's unique literary contribution to the elaboration of Sufism in the West. To know Noor's mind and heart, there is no better place to turn than to her literary creations. Noor's retellings of twenty jātaka tales have remained in print for much of the last century, but other stories from her pen, and her singular mystical drama Aède of the Ocean and Land, have only recently seen publication. Now, at last, it is possible to bring all of Noor's principal works together under a single cover.The pages that follow present and contextualize the greater part of Noor's oeuvre, including several hitherto unpublished pieces. The emerging picture reveals the visionary world of a cosmopolitan author whose constant concern is the life of the soul. Noor's imagination ranges down the centuries and across the globe, illuminating a tableau of human, animal, and elfin lives together working out a destiny ordained in heaven. Throughout her incantory wanderings, a seamless continuity links Noor's ethical and spiritual vision with that of her father, the musician and mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan.
