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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221092996
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 468
Size : 135 x 215 mm
The Forgotten Princess

Release date : 07/03/2002

On 16 June 1943, Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess, descendant of the Sultan of Mysore, daughter of a great Sufi mystic, and John Sutherland, a young Franco-British officer, touched down in a field near Angers, in the West of occupied France. They were both agents...

On 16 June 1943, Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess, descendant of the Sultan of Mysore, daughter of a great Sufi mystic, and John Sutherland, a young Franco-British officer, touched down in a field near Angers, in the West of occupied France. They were both agents of the Special Operations Executive; the secret organisation set up by Churchill in 1940 to 'set Europe ablaze' and which supported Resistance movements across the continent. Closely inspired by a true story, this novel of war and adventure brings back to life the fascinating itinerary of the beautiful Princess Noor, musician and poet and later a British agent in the service of the French Resistance. In the Paris of the Occupation, she was to find love and betrayal, fear and courage, and play a crucial part in the operations that led to the allied landings of June 1944 before the Nazis captured her and deported her to Dachau.

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EAN : 9782221092996
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 468
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont