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Granville, Christine, 1908-1952
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Christine Granville, was born Krystyna Skarbek on her parents' estate at Mlodziesyn, thirty miles from Warsaw. In 1938 she married Jerzy Gizycki. Shortly after their marriage, he was sent to Ethiopia as the Polish Consul, and the couple were in Addis Ababa when Hitler invaded Poland. They made their way back to London but the pair separated. Krystyna made three undercover visits to Warsaw, collecting military and economic information which was sent to London. On her return from the third visit, ...