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Noor Inayat Khan

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Noor Khan was a pacifist, an Indian Muslim, a poet and children's author.

During WWII she joined the Special Operations Executive and was sent to Nazi-occipied France as a wireless operator, transmitting vital secret messages.

When her network was broken and her colleagues captured by the Nazis, she refused to abandon what had become the most important and dangerous post in France, as the last link between London and Paris.

She was executed in Dachau in 1944 after being betrayed to the Nazis, and was posthumously awarded the George Cross and Croix de Guerre.

The astonishing story of a true British hero.

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Product Details
1472900138 / 9781472900135
Paperback / softback
823.92
07/11/2013
United Kingdom
English
107 pages
20 cm
Children / Juvenile Learn More
Quiz No: 226330, Points 2.00, Book Level 4.80,
Middle Years - Key Stage 2 Learn More