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In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

  
  Christine Granville - spymuseum.com
Again professing his love for her, Muldowney was told by Granville in no uncertain terms that she wanted him to leave her alone.
Muldowney was sentenced to death for the murder and was hanged in September 1952 at Pentonville Prison.
Granville was buried with the French Croix de Guerre, a medal from Poland, the George Medal for Special Services, the Order of the British Empire and the badge of the French Resistence.
www.spymuseum.com /pages/agent-granville-christine3.html   (235 words)

  
 Christine Granville - spymuseum.com
Krystyna was brought into the Special Operations Executive brance of British inteligence, recruited because of her intellect and her fluency in several different languages.
Was given the name Christine Granville by SOE and used it for the rest of her life.
She was to work with resistance group in fighting the Nazi invasion and received special training in espionage.
www.spymuseum.com /pages/agent-granville-christine.html   (251 words)

  
 Granville, Christine - Article
Christine Granville (who was born a Polish countess) had been awarded the George Medal for her undercover work against the Gestapo.
Christine at this point chose her British name, partly because she liked the sound of It, partly because it matched her married initials.
Finally, on the eve of the American landings on the Riviera, Christine was chosen as the courier for Francis Cammaerts, the top SOE officer In southern France.
www.64-baker-street.org /agents/agent_others_christine_granville_02.html   (2379 words)

  
 Guardian | Author, 93, sells film rights to tale of woman spy
Christine Granville, who was Polish-born, was awarded the George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre for her outstanding bravery working as an allied spy in Poland, Hungary and France.
In the annals of European resistance, Granville is known as Churchill's favourite spy because her information about a Nazi tank build-up on the Russian border supposedly enabled the war leader to warn his Soviet counterpart, Stalin, of an impending attack.
Christine risked her life to return to Poland three times, having to ski through mountain passes to re-enter her homeland.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5041559-103690,00.html   (747 words)

  
 Christine Granville
Christine was arrested on the Slovakian-Polish border and in Hungary but on both occasions she managed to escape.
Christine and Andrzej Kowerski were eventually recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Christine Granville who had for her own volition risked the death penalty, the responsibility must have been almost beyond endurance.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEgranville.htm   (1269 words)

  
 Larger Than Life: Christine Granville | MetaFilter
Known to history as Christine Granville, Krystyna Skarbek was first Polish nobility and later Churchill's favorite spy.
Undaunted by weather, Christine skied over the Tatras from Hungary to Poland to gather intelligence and participated in the liberation of France.
She was awarded the Croix de Guerre, but found herself ill-suited to normal employment, and worked as a saleswoman at Harrods and as a telephonist before becoming an oceanliner stewardess.
www.metafilter.com /53671/Larger-Than-Life-Christine-Granville   (348 words)

  
 News | 6 March 2003 releases
Christine Granville (as she became known), the daughter of Count Jerzy Skarbek, was in Ethiopia with her husband when Poland was invaded in September 1939.
After the war Granville did a number of jobs, including work as stewardess on the liner Rauhine where she met steward George Muldowney, who murdered her in June 1952.
HS 9/612 contains reports of the first contacts between Granville and British intelligence (before the formation of SOE), and discussion of her plans to deliver propaganda material into Poland in 1939.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2003/march6/soe.htm   (3988 words)

  
 Granville, Christine - Biography
Krystyna Skarbek was the Polish-born spy known as Christine Granville and decorated World War II hero.
After her second escape from enemy hands she fled to England where she joined the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Fluent in the French language, she was assigned to SOE's F Section and given the name Christine Granville under which she became most commonly known.
www.64-baker-street.org /agents/agent_others_christine_granville_01.html   (843 words)

  
 Pastel Art by Christine Camilleri
Christine Camilleri’s studio is in Coquitlam, British Columbia.
A self taught artist she works primarily in soft pastels.
Federation Gallery, Granville Island, BC, 2005 — 2006, "The Potting Shed", "Summer’s Song II", Reedbed", "The Storm Breaks", "Settling Down".
www.christinecamilleri.com /mbr_bio.php   (177 words)

  
 Original Art - Pastel Artist - Watercolour Artist
Federation of Canadian Artists, Granville Island, Smaller, Smaller, Smallest Show and Landscape Show, December to February, 2006
Christine is a member of The Federation of Canadian Artists, The Northwest Watercolour Society, Port Moody Art Association, Suite-E Artists Group and the Northwest Pastel Society.
You can contact Christine directly through email or for further information please contact:
www.artincanada.com /christinecamilleri   (308 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Christine: Search for Christine Granville, GM, OBE, Croix de Guerre: Books: Madeleine Masson
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