3 women (from so many) who have inspired me, to mark #InternationalWomensDay
1) #KrystynaSkarbek, 1908-52. Aka Christine Granville, Britain’s 1st female special agent of WW2 & among most high achieving. (see #TheSpyWhoLoved)
With Valentines coming up, what better gift than a copy of #TheSpyWhoLoved?
Krystyna Skarbek aka Christine Granville loved adventure & adrenaline, she loved men - she had 2 husbands & many lovers, but most of all she loved freedom…
Show them you appreciate passion, courage & action!
🤍❤️📖📕📖❤️🤍
Delighted to see my biography - #TheSpyWhoLoved - of the 1st woman to serve Britain as a special agent in #WW2, ie #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, mentioned in this @thetimes.com coverage of #MI6 chief #BlaiseMetreweli’s speech.
Nice early Christmas present to receive these copies of #SpiesInHistory for which I write on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville whose remarkable story I told in my bk #TheSpyWhoLoved.
These essays were first published in the excellent #EngelsbergIdeas
Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
How fab are these murals designs for murals, hopefully to go on bldings in Poznań!
Created by design students, these 2 show #KrysrynaSkarkek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved, &
#ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo!
I LOVE these images, do you?
Great to see #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville highlighted on this Warsaw exhibition poster.
Shame they didn’t mention her securing the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison in the Alps! It’s all in my book, #TheSpyWhoLoved
#KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved.
#WW2 hero, secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison, smuggled vital intel across borders, saved lives. Murdered in London by a pathetic stalker #otd in 1952.
Gone but no longer forgotten.
- #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville - Britain’s 1st female special agent, served in 3 theatres, inc single-handed securing the defection of a German garrison in the Alps. Subject of my book #TheSpyWhoLoved
#KrystynaSkarbek, aka #ChristineGranville, was #BOTD 1908. Her amazing true story is told in my book #TheSpyWhoLoved…
This is the ‘vanille’ pastry created in tribute to #ChristineGranville aka #KrystynaSkarbek subject of my book #TheSpyWhoLoved!
(She enjoyed cake at #ShepheardsHotel in #Cairo during the war, & loved clubs & glamour, so I think she’d have loved this!)
99p on #kindle today!
#KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved - on her own - secured the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison in the Alps… among much more…
What better gift for #ValentinesDay than #TheSpyWhoLoved?
After #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville had single-handedly secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison in the Alps, she rescued 3 male #SOE colleagues inc, her lover, from execution…
Makes the ❤️ beat faster!
The wonderful #NationalPortraitGallery surprised me today… I went to give a talk about #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, as they’d just hung her portrait….
Wonderful to be at the National Portrait Gallery ahead of my 1pm talk on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved.
The talk marks the gallery hanging the original photographic portrait of Skarbek donated by the family of #WilliamStanleyMoss following my introduction.
#historythreads
Great to be talking about the women of SOE on the @WeHaveWaysPod . In this 1st episode of 3, we focus on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved:
Delighted to be hosted by the #RoyalYachtSquadton book club this evening, on the #IsleOfWight, to discuss #TheSpyWhoLoved, my biography of the first woman to serve Britain as a special agent in the #SecondWorldWar, #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville .
When you give a talk about #TheSpyWhoLoved at #YorkUniversity & it turns out you used to push one of the students on the swings 20 years ago!
Thanks to the @theyorkdu for inviting me up, & all who came along!
Great to see #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGanville #TheSpyWhoLoved remembered in the current edition of the #NationalPortraitGallery magazine, following the donation of this original photograph of her by her goddaughter :)
Really pleased with this piece on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved!
It marks the #NationalPortraitGallery displaying their new photo of her. I was delighted to introduce the generous donors, whose dad, #BillStanleyMoss, knew Krystyna in Cairo & London.
Can’t wait to see it up
#OTD 1944, 80 yrs ago today, acting alone, Polish born #SOE agent #KrystynaSkarbek, aka #ChristineGranville, rescued 2 Brit & 1 French officer from prison in Nazi German occupied France just hours before their scheduled execution at a nearby football pitch.
Her full story is told in #TheSpyWhoLoved
New plaque unveiled at Bramousee recognising the role played by Italian partisans, & British & Polish special agents, among them #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved. #OperationToplink aimed to divert German forces from the #Dragoon landings in S France.
#WW2 resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo & special agent #KrystybaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved never met, but they’re coming together now at an exhibition in @posk London.
I’m delighted to be talking there about them both this Tues 9 July…
This woman single-handedly secured the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison on a strategic pass in the Alps in summer 1944. SOE’s Polish
#KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved.
Murdered in London, #otd 1952.
#lestweforget
Wonderful to bump into these guys at @posklondon yesterday.
Polish-born #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville with her 1-legged lover, #AndrzejKowerski #AndrewKennedy.
My biography of Krystyna is called #TheSpyWhoLoved &, in Polish, #KobietaSzpieg
Born #otd 1908, #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved.
Reportedly Churchill’s ‘favourite spy’.
Last year, at a @bigginhillmuseum talk, a lady generously gave me this photo, Russian inscription on the back, then disappeared. Please get in touch to tell me more!
THANK YOU to everyone who reads, or listens to, this history… 10 yrs after publication, #TheSpyWhoLoved, abt #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, Britain’s inspirational 1st female special agent of #WW2, is an @AmazonUK #1 best-seller! 📖📕🇵🇱🇬🇧
‘Granville had the kind of personality that could bend steel bars.’
Today’s #Telegraph on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, subject of my bk #TheSpyWhoLoved.
My #HistoriesSecretHeroes pod is not out yet, but I agree, she should be on screen!
Talking abt #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #thespywholoved at the #Secondworldwar museum in #gdańsk today, alongside #JulianGuillon from #VercorsMuseum.
After the Battle of Vercors, Skarbek single-handedly secured the defection of a German garrison in the Alps!
