#37.
X had been a Warsaw beauty-queen candidate at 19, and then married a feckless but charming Polish aristocrat. In 1939, determined to help her country, she immediately travelled to London and demanded to be taken on by the British Secret Intelligence Service’s Section ‘D’. This was to become the Special Operations Executive, or SOE, in 1940, tasked with sabotage and undercover missions in Axis-controlled Europe. She is also known by the British name Christine Granville. She reputedly inspired Ian Fleming’s courageous and beautiful Bond girl Vesper Lynd in “Casino Royale”.
ID X.
X had been a Warsaw beauty-queen candidate at 19, and then married a feckless but charming Polish aristocrat. In 1939, determined to help her country, she immediately travelled to London and demanded to be taken on by the British Secret Intelligence Service’s Section ‘D’. This was to become the Special Operations Executive, or SOE, in 1940, tasked with sabotage and undercover missions in Axis-controlled Europe. She is also known by the British name Christine Granville. She reputedly inspired Ian Fleming’s courageous and beautiful Bond girl Vesper Lynd in “Casino Royale”.
ID X.
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