http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416030/Christine-Granville-Britains-female-special-agent-paved-way-liberation-France.html
She was the deadly special agent who charged headlong into occupied territory to fight for her country and the Jewish mother who was killed in a concentration camp.
Christine Granville – the favourite spy of Winston Churchill – worked for years undermining the Nazi regime despite having a short life expectancy in the field.She famously always kept a knife strapped to her thigh, so that she was ready for action at any time.
Christine, a native of Poland who was born Krystyna Skarbek, volunteered in 1939 after her homeland fell to the Nazis.
She was enrolled in what was then known as ‘Section D’ – short for destruction – which would later become the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which undertook espionage, reconnaissance and sabotage missions in occupied territory.
The fledgling spy was given the cover name Christine Granville, which she adopted permanently after the war.
She was sent first on missions between Hungary – then neutral – and occupied Poland, where she proved her mettle as an intelligence courier, skiing by night to dodge border patrols in temperatures of -30 Celsius.