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Code Name Madeline: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida
Reveals a biography of Noor Inayat Khan, a British spy during World War II who, though being raised by peace-loving parents in a wealthy Parisian suburb, joined the Resistance and at one time was the only active spy in France. With the code name Madeleine, Noor was a wireless radio operator who helped rebuild the Resistance network and aid in the successful Normandy Invasion before being captured and murdered by the Gestapo when she was thirty years old. Includes black-and-white photographs, source notes, and an index.
Review from Library Journal:
Drawing on primary and secondary source material, as well as interviews and archival research, Magida (The Rabbi and the Hit Man; The Nazi Séance) documents the life of Noor Inayat Khan (1914–44). Posthumously awarded the highest civilian honor in the UK, Khan was a British spy and lesser-known unsung hero of World War II. The daughter of an Indian mystic and an American poet who lived in Moscow and Paris before escaping to England as war broke out, Khan joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and was later recruited by Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare," aka the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Known by the Allies and Nazis alike as "Madeleine," she served as a wireless radio operator in occupied France and was instrumental in rebuilding a shattered Resistance network before her capture, torture, and execution at age 30. Magida here fills in the details of Noor's life and death, as well as those of auxiliary family members and others, while moving her narrative to its suspenseful conclusion.
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