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Newest Review: ... the secret files and into public view. Noor was an unlikely candidate for life as a spy. She was born in Moscow on New ... more

 ... Year's Day 1914 to an Indian father and an American mother. Her father was the leader of a group of Sufi Muslims and he travelled around Europe with his family building a following for his beliefs and his philosophy. Sufis are opposed to violence and her father was a supporter of Gandhi's principles of peaceful protest. Whilst the family were not exactly well-to-do, they had many wealthy and influential friends. Noor loved to write poetry, play music and write children's stories and she studied for qualifications in chil...more

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Crowned ReviewSpy Princess - Shrabani Basu: A Great Life Poorly Written (1704 words)
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~A Life Lived Large~ In November 2012 a statue was unveiled in Gordon Square, London to a woman of whom I had never heard. I'm prone to letting the news wash over me and to filter out a lot of what's not directly interesting to me but something about this story made me stop and pay attention. The woman commemorated by the statue was Noor Inayat Khan G.C, MBE, Croix de Guerre - also known as Nora Baker - and she had been the first woman wireless operator to be dropped into France in the Second World War by the secretive Special Operations Executive (SOE). She worked under extreme danger to transmit crucial messages back to the British during the German ...  Read the complete review