Spy princess: the life of Noor Inayat Khan (Record no. 346947)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220912141734.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788174366146 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.54092 BAS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Basu, Shrabani |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Spy princess: the life of Noor Inayat Khan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Lotus |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 230 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | On 13 September 1944, Noor Inayat Khan, the first female wireless operator to be flown into occupied France, was shot at Dachau. The descendant of Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, Noor was born in Moscow and raised in the Sufi style of Islam. From this unlikely background she became the only Asian secret agent in Europe in World War II, was one of three women in the SOE to be awarded the George Cross and the Croix de Guerre. Shrabani Basu's new book tells the full story of this extraordinarily heroic woman. Noor was brought up in France and Britain and joined the Red Cross when world War II broke out. In Britain, Noor trained as a wireless operator before being recruited by the SOE. Such was the urgent demand for radio operators that she was sent to France before her training was completed. Working under the code name of Madeleine, she joined a group that sabotaged communication lines. But disaster struck quickly and within days, her circuit collapsed and her colleagues were arrested. Though instructed by her controller, the famous Maurice Buckmaster, to return home, she refused to abandon her post as she was the last radio operator left in Paris. For a time she successfully dodged the Gestapo, but by late 1943 her luck had run out. She was betrayed, arrested and imprisoned at Avenue Foch. Undaunted, she made two dramatic escape attempts, but was recaptured and sent to Germany. Here she was interrogated and tortured and finally sent to Dachau, where she was shot. The Germans had learned nothing from her - not even her real name. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Khan, Noor Inayat, 1914-1944 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Foot, M.R.D. (fwd.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Total renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date due | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2022-09-02 | 395.00 | 2 | 1 | 940.54092 BAS | 164275 | 2025-10-13 | 2024-10-10 | 2024-10-10 | 2022-09-02 | Books | ||
| Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2022-09-12 | 1 | 1 | 940.54092 BAS | 164307 | 2022-11-12 | 2022-09-18 | 2022-09-12 | Books |