Overview
An account of the life and wartime work of Noor Inayat Khan written by her personal friend Jean Overton Fuller. Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray Baker, was SOE’s first woman wireless transmitter in German-occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the George Cross MBE and Croix de Guerre with Gold Star for her wartime service and heroism, Noor’s remarkable and inspiring life have been commemorated in numerous war memorials, WWII histories, and several films. Based on official documents and interviews with Noor’s family, friends, fellow SOE agents, Resistance members, Noor’s German interrogators, and other prisoners of war. Previously unpublished material includes a retrospective by Noor’s brother Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.
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Author: Jean Overton Fuller
Publisher: Suluk Press, Omega Publications
Imprint: Suluk Press, Omega Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.138kg
ISBN: 9781941810323
ISBN 10: 1941810322
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 20 October 2019
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
THE pleasure Jean Overton Fuller will give to many people by telling us so much more of Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan's early life is immense. Noor, for her service in SOE, has a special place of her own in the history of the Second World War which will never be forgotten by her contemporaries. Her war service makes wonderful reading. I like to think, however, that today's youth, anxious as it is apparently to forget history, will be curious in human terms to read about the real characters and background of those who served the free world with such gallantry before many of them were born. This to me is the especial fascination of this book. Irene Ward, Baroness, North Tyneside CH, DBE
Author Information
"Jean Overton Fuller (1915-2009) was a personal friend of Noor and the Inayat Khan family. Her account of Noor s life and wartime work was based on extensive and in-depth research, including official documentation and extensive interviews with Noor s family, friends, fellow SOE agents and administrators, Resistance members, Noor s German interrogators and jailers, and other prisoners of war. ""Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan: Madeleine"" has become a classic and foundational resource for other researches and publications. Additional WW II titles by the same author include ""The Starr Affai""r and ""Dericourt, the Chequered Spy."""
