Book description
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 own 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. Then
months after she was captured, she was taken to Dachau concentration
camp and, on 13th September 194, she was shot. Her last word was 'Liberte'.
