May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
Christine GranvilleTag: inspirational germany biography spy world-war-2 rescue military-history second-world-war soe parachute christine-granville clare-mulley krystyna-skarbek special-agent
Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii cruelty sacrifice biography spies second-world-war soe christine-granville krystyna-skarbek special-agent
For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii biography spies second-world-war christine-granville krystyna-skarbek secret-agents
When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii spies second-world-war christine-granville krystyna-skarbek secret-agents french-occupation
Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii murder obsession resistance biography possession spies second-world-war christine-granville krystyna-skarbek special-agents
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.
Clare MulleyTag: wwii courage biography spy dynamite military-history second-world-war soe krystyna-skarbek special-agent christine-graville sir-owen-o-malley
If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in the 1930s and 1940s not just for its own national dignity and survival, but for the victory of all the Allies, west and east, against some of the darkest forces that history has ever produced.
Rana MitterTag: china second-world-war
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