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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

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by Clare Mulley


  British Military Mission to Poland 1939

  British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)

  British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

  CG joins

  CG provides with wartime intelligence gathered in Budapest and Poland see also Special Operations Executive (SOE)

  Section D

  training

  see also Special Operations Executive (SOE)

  Brooks-Richards, Francis

  Brown Deer (press club), Cieszyn, Poland

  Bruce, Colonel David

  Buckmaster, Maurice

  Budapest, Hungary

  Bulgaria

  Butler, General

  Cairo, Egypt

  CG in post-war

  CG in wartime

  Cammaerts, Francis

  aides CG’s post-war job search

  aides post-war recognition and support for families of those who supported resistance

  appearance

  arrest and threatened execution

  bounty on head of

  builds SOE resistance/intelligence circuits in France

  Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges, UNESCO, post-war work for

  CG’s afterlife/legacy and

  CG’s death and

  CG’s love for

  Croix de Guerre/Order of Vercors

  dropped into France

  field names

  first meets CG

  first passionate night with CG

  Germany, sent to with SAARF (Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force)

  honoured by France

  joins SOE

  marriage

  on Muldowney

  on surrender of Marche garrison

  post-war life

  resistance work with CG

  ‘Roger’ codename

  Vercors battle and

  Cammaerts, Nan

  Cammaerts, Pieter

  Carpathian mountains

  Carpathian Lancers

  Cazalet, Victor

  Charities Council

  Chastelain, Alfred Gardyne de

  Chavant, Eugène

  Chopin, Fryderyck

  Chopin, Nicholas

  Churchill, Peter

  Churchill, Sarah

  Churchill, Winston

  Barbarossa and

  Maquis and

  Poland and

  on Sikorski

  SOE and

  and Soviet-Polish relations

  Tehran Conference 1943

  Warsaw Rising 1944 and

  Yalta Conference 1945

  Yugoslavia and

  Col-de-Larche, France

  Communists/Communism:

  French

  Polish

  Cookham, Colonel

  courier networks

  Balkans

  France

  Cowburn, (‘Tinker’) Major Benjamin

  Cowles, Virginia

  Crawley, Aidan

  Czechoslovakia

  Częstochowa, Poland

  Czyzewska, Anna

  Czyzewska, Suzanna

  Czyzewski, Christopher

  Daily Express

  Daily Mail

  Daily Mirror

  Daily Telegraph

  Dalton, Hugh

  Dansey, Claude

  Daquise (Polish café), London

  Darton, June

  Daujat, Raymond

  Davidson, Basil

  D-Day 1944

  de Gaulle, General Charles

  Deakin, Bill

  Deakin (née Nasta), Livia ‘Pussi’

  Department EH, British Intelligence

  Deschamps, Auguste (‘Albert’)

  Deschamps, Paulette

  Die, France

  Digne, France

  Dodds-Parker, Douglas

  ‘Donkeyman’ resistance/intelligence circuit

  Dragoon, Operation 1944

  Dunford, Michael

  Durrell, Lawrence

  Economist

  Eden, Anthony

  Egypt see also Cairo

  Eisenhower, General Dwight

  El Alamein, Battle of 1942

  Electra House, London

  Evening Standard

  Express Poranny (Morning Express)

  Fairburn, Major Bill

  FANYs (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry)

  Farouk of Egypt, King

  Fermor, Paddy Leigh

  Fernham mission

  Fielding, Xan (‘Cathédral’)

  Filipkiewicz, Antoni

  First World War

  Flamstead mission

  Fleming, Ian

  Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI)

  Foreign Office, British

  Foskett, Laura

  France

  Allied invasion of 1944 (‘Overlord’)

  Allied invasion of Southern 1944 (‘Dragoon’)

  Cammaerts in see Cammaerts, Francis

  CG in see Granville, Christine

  declares war with Germany

  ‘Donkeyman’ resistance circuit

  fall of

  female agents in

  FFI in

  gendarmerie

  German invasion of 1940

  Jedburgh teams in

  Jerzy Gizycki in

  ‘Jockey’ resistance circuit

  liberation of 1944

  Mandate

  Maquis in

  Milice

  Operation Toplink

  Polish army in Polish government-in-exile in

  resistance circuits in

  ‘Spindle’ resistance circuit

  Vercors, Battle of 1944

  Vichy

  see also under individual area or town name

  Frank, Hans

  Freston mission

  Galletti, Gilbert

  Gap, France

  Gazeta Polska

  General Headquarters Multilateral Force: Movement Section

  Geneva Convention

  George Cross

  Germany

  CG visits post-war

  First World War

  foreign troops fighting for, WWII

  France, occupation of, WWII

  Jews, treatment of, WWII

  Poland, invasion of

  Poland, occupation of, WWII

  post-war

  Russia, invasion of 1941

  surrenders 1945

  non-aggression pact with Russia

  Warsaw Rising 1944 and

  Gestapo

  Gettlich, Gustav (first husband)

  Giżycki, Jerzy Mikolaj Ordon (second husband)

  Africa, life in

  background

  Budapest, wartime

  Cairo, wartime

  Canada, post-war life in

  CG divorce from

  CG informs she no longer loves him

  CG leave for Budapest, watches

  CG suggests as replacement agent in Budapest

  CG will and

  CG, first meets

  France, wartime

  funeral, missing from CG’s

  Istanbul

  London

  marries CG

  Mexico, post-war life in

  SIS and

  SOE and

  Voigt and

  Yugoslavia

  Goldefeder, Józef (uncle)

  Goldfeder family

  Goldfeder, Roza (grandmother)

  Gombrowicz, Witold

  Gordimer, Nadine

  Gormal, Sergeant Len

  Gradowski, Michal (‘Lis’, the ‘fox’)

  GRANVILLE, CHRISTINE

  AFTERLIFE OF

  attempts to protect reputation of

  Bond girls, as inspiration for

  biographies

  biopic, rumoured

  conspiracy theories concerning death

  daughters named after

  novels and verse inspired by

  legacy

  Picture Post serialisation of life

  secret lovers rumoured

/>   ALGIERS:

  social life in

  SOE training in

  AWARDS/MEDALS

  Croix de Guerre/Order of Vercors

  George Cross

  OBE

  War Medal 1939–1945

  BRITAIN:

  arrives in 1939

  awaits mission to Poland in 1944

  citizenship/passport

  first visits 1938

  post-war life in

  returns to from France 1944

  see also POST-WAR LIFE; British Secret

  Intelligence Service (SIS) and

  Special Operations Executive (SOE)

  BULGARIA:

  travels through on way to Cairo 1941

  CAIRO:

  arrival in

  FANYs, joins

  idleness/search for work in

  journey to

  language classes in

  leaves

  Operation Kris and

  provides British with intelligence on Polish within

  parachute course, Ramat David, leaves for

  Polish intelligence attitude towards CG in

  post-war life in

  sex life in

  Sikorski and

  SIS training course in

  social life in

  SOE dispense with CG’s services in

  wireless operator, trains as in

  CHARACTER

  ability to blend into a room

  ability to talk to anyone, from any walk of life

  appeal/attractiveness

  Catholic

  chameleon quality

  childlessness

  competition, love of

  criticism, aversion to

  cycling, dislike of

  depression

  dogs, love of

  fitness

  flamboyance

  freedom, desire for

  grace/movement

  grenades, preference for

  guns, dislike of

  inferiority complex/thin-skinned

  Jewishness

  land, respect for

  loner/independence

  office work, aversion to

  Polishness, passionate

  skiing, love of

  stories, invention/embellishment of

  suicide, thoughts of

  sunbathing, love of

  switching on personality

  tone-deaf

  vitality

  war liberates

  CHILDHOOD

  baptized

  birth

  Catholic religion and

  childhood homes

  family see also under individual family member name

  first meets Andrzej Kowerski

  horse riding

  school

  FINANCES

  FRANCE

  Allied invasion of (‘Overlord’) and

  Allied invasion of Southern (‘Dragoon’) and

  Allies liberation of and

  Cammaerts and see Cammaerts, Francis courier in

  enters

  first considers mission in

  honoured in leaves Algiers for

  ‘mosquito bite’ operations in France secures release of Cammaerts, Fielding and Sorensen

  supports drop of arms in

  trains for mission in

  objectives in

  subversion of foreign units fighting for Germans

  Vercors, Battle of

  see also France and under individual area or town name

  HUNGARY

  Andrzej Kowerski, meets in see also Kowerski, Andrzej

  arrested in

  arrival in

  British failure to act on intelligence gathered within

  courier networks, work with within

  escape to Yugoslavia from

  intelligence work within

  Poland, abortive attempt to enter from

  Poland, missions to based in

  INDENTITIES/NAMES

  birth name

  Christine Granville

  ‘Folkestone’ codename

  Gettlich from first marriage

  Gizycka from second marriage

  ‘Jacqueline Armand’ codename

  ‘Marja Kaminski’ codename

  ‘Mucha’ or ‘Fly’ codename

  ‘Pauline’ codename

  protection of aristocratic

  Venal Vera … from Gezira

  ‘Vesperale’ nickname

  ‘Willing’ codename

  ‘Zofia Andrzejewska’ codename

  LOVE LIFE

  abortions/miscarriages, rumoured

  divorce, first

  divorce, second

  first husband

  lovers see under individual lover name

  marries for the first time

  marries for the second time

  murdered by lover

  second husband (Jerzy Gizycki)

  secret lovers rumoured after death

  sex life and

  OUTBREAK OF WAR AND

  forms plan to volunteer for British intelligence

  hears of

  leaves for Hungary

  London, arrival in

  reaction to German invasion of Poland

  SOE, joins

  POLAND

  abortive attempts to enter

  abortive attempts to enter

  attempts to protect family in 1940

  authorities’ attitude towards CG within

  childhood in

  entry into/journeys into wartime

  family in see under individual family member name

  intelligence work in wartime

  pre-war life in

  provides British with intelligence on Polish intrigues

  see also Poland and polish intelligence/ resistance/underground

  POST-WAR LIFE

  abortions/miscarriages, rumoured

  awards/medals

  British citizenship

  burial

  car dealership venture

  childlessness death drinking

  dropped by SOE

  French honour

  Germany, visits Andrzej Kowerski in

  girls named after

  job search

  left a London house in will of a colonel

  legal independence from second husband, gains

  lists birth place as London

  London medication, rumours of

  Nairobi

  Poland, awaits mission to 1944

  portrait

  runs linen room of a Paddington Hotel

  sells frocks at Harrods

  stewardess on shipping lines

  switchboard operator, India House, London

  Switzerland, holiday in

  WAAF commission

  waitress at Marynka, Brompton Road, London

  PRE-WAR LIFE

  divorce

  Fiat office job, Warsaw

  husband, meets first

  husband, meets second

  Jewishness

  London, arrival in

  marries, first time, Warsaw

  marries, second time, Warsaw

  ‘Miss Polonia’ contest

  shadow on lungs

  skiing

  South Africa

  Warsaw society

  Zakopane, Poland

  SYRIA

  intelligence work in 1941

  travels through pro-Vichy 1941

  TURKEY

  stays in on way to Cairo 1941

  YUGOSLAVIA

  escapes from Budapest into 1941

  Greece

  ‘green frontier’

  Grenoble, France

  Grotte de la Luire (‘Gleaming Cave’), Vercors, France

  Gubbins, Lieutenant Colonel Colin (later Major-General)

  Gubbins, Michael

  Gunn, Harvard

  Hadik prison, Budapest

  Haifa, Palestine

  Halsey, John

  Hamilton, Leonard

  Hamilton, Norman

 
Harrison, Hubert

  Harrods, London

  Hay, Captain

  Hérault, Paul

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hollingworth, Clare

  Home Army, Polish

  Horthy, Admiral Miklos

  Howarth, Captain Patrick

  Howe, Ted

  Hudson, Colonel D. T.

  Huet, Major François

  Huillier, Daniel

  Hungarian police

  Hungarian Secret Police

  Hungary

  Ill Met By Moonlight (Moss)

  India House, London

  International Refugee Organization, UN

  Iran

  Iraq

  Ironside, General

  Istanbul, Turkey

  Italy

  Japan

  Jebb, Gladwyn

  Jedburgh teams

  Jennings, Chief Superintendant George

  Jepson, Selwyn

  Jerusalem, Palestine

  Jewish people:

  CG family/CG and

  WWII and

  ‘Jockey’ resistance/intelligence circuit

  ‘Judex’ mission, SOE

  Kasparek, Józef

  Katyn massacre 1940

  Kenya

  Kenyan Civil Aviation

  Khan, Prince Ali

  Klimkowski, Captain

  Koelichen, Angela von

  Koenig, General Pierre

  Kopanski, General Stanisław

  Kowerska, Barbara

  Kowerska, Maria

  Kowerski, Andrzej (Andrew Stanisław Kowerski-Kennedy)

  afterlife/legacy of CG and

  Algiers, visits CG in

  appearance

  Balkans, wartime resistance work in

  begins affair with CG

  Black Brigade

  break with CG

  British citizenship

  Bulgaria, with CG in

  Cairo, life with CG in

  car crash in Germany, post-war

  car dealership venture with CG, post-war

  death of CG and

  family massacred in war

  first meets CG

  ‘Forcible’ codename

  Germany, CG visits in

  Germany, post-war life in

  Italy, wartime life in

  Kate O’Malley and

  Kenya, CG asks to join in

  meets CG in Budapest

  Muldowney and

  Opel car

  NKVD passed information on

  Palestine

  parachute training

  post-war visits to CG

  prosthetic leg

  recruited to SOE

  Syria with CG

  Turkey with CG

  Kris, Operation 1944

  Laski, Father

  Lebanon

  Ledóchowski, Count Wladimir (Jan Grodzicki)

  Ledóchowski, Jan

  Lee, Peter

  Lees, Gwendolin

  Lefort, Cecily

  Leski, Kazimierz

  Lezzard, Julian (‘Église’)

  Lobkowitz, Prince Eddie

  Long, Vera

  Łubienska, Teresa

  Lublin Polish Committee of National Liberation

  Lubomirski, Prince Kazimierz

  Lubomirski, Prince Marcin

  Luftwaffe

  Lycett, Andrew

  Madonna of Częstochowa

  Mackiewicz, Stanisław ‘Cat’

  Macmillan, Harold

  Maczek, General

  Mallaby, Dick

 

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