"Spy Princess" takes advantage of all the former efforts to tell the story of a wonderful Heroine named Noor Un Nisa. It is a well written and thoughtful contribution to the library of material that is growing agout the SOE and Noor. It sorts for the truth among all the research that has blossomed since WWII, making it a well balanced combination of all the known facts.
Noor's legacy is a story which doesn't die, and as the newcomer will find, rightfully so. The first book about her life, "Noor Un Nisa", was penned by Jean Overton Fuller, a personal wartime friend of Noor's. Little was known about the circumstances surrounding Noor's death until the peices began to be assembled. After five years of research Fuller published her findings in 1950, and the results were sensational. Soon afterward her book was made into a Hollywood movie, and these opened up public interests into a wide field of other questions about the fate of all the agents of the SOE, the secret organization which Noor joined to fight Hitler.
Noor was a Pacifist, growing up in the family of one of the world's greatest Sufi teacher's, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Noor's brother, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, took up the Sufi mantle upon his father's death, and taught in the US and Europe for the rest of his life. He in fact was in England with his sister unaware that she was preparing to go into occuppied France, eventually to her death. So he too was in the dark about his sister's fate until the war crimes tribunals and the efforts to find out more began to trickle out into public scrutiny. Pir Vilayat also took part in the war effort against totalitarianism in the British Navy, and was one of the few who escaped death on board a British Destroyer which was hunting a U Boat when his ship was torpedoed.
Another fine work, "Flames In The Field" by Kramer, was done in the 1990's. Kramer helped hone the material into shape by a wide study of the fellow agents who worked in tandem with Noor. They were part of a large effort conducted by a score of underground networks established under the rubric of the SOE against German control of France as well as elsewhere throughout the Allies war effort of WWII. All these books are worth the time to read for they are timely in the current fears that Fascism and Totalitarianism are not done with. With the current aggeement between China and Russia 'for security and economic purposes' just completed, there may be more chips to fall.
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MICHELLE GOUIN
Great book about a very unfairly unknown hero(ine) of WWII.
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Reviewed in India on September 20, 2016
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Reviewed in India on September 20, 2016
A thoroughly researched book, it takes us through the brief, but very eventful life of Noor. Just like everyone who met her was touched, every reader of this book cannot help but fall in love with the Brave young woman...and pray for her safety! At the end of the book I questioned God Why He left her side when she and her cell mates made that bold attempt at escape from the most dreaded place...if only her employers had been a little more careful, we would, as the book says, had had yet another brave Indian woman freedom fighter!!
I thank the author for bringing to light the story of a forgotten hero of World War II...wish to read more on Noor and other Martyrs.
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