The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (53 page)

9. Count Wladimir Ledóchowski.

10. Andrzej Kowerski’s Polish passport, issued September 1939.

11. Christine
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.1940.

12. Sir Owen O’Malley, Head of the British Legation, Budapest, 1940, later British Ambassador to the Polish government-in-exile.

13. Christine and Andrzej in Syria, 1942.

14. Christine and Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain at the Gezira Club.

15. The pool at the Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo,
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.1943.

16. Christine, Andrzej seated behind, and an unknown officer, Cairo 1942.

17. Zofia Tarnowska Moss, Cairo,
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.1943.

18. Bill Stanley Moss, Cairo, 1940s. ‘She throve on danger’, Moss said of Christine, ‘it was a tonic for her’.

19. Christine in Palestine, 1942.

20. Christine’s British Forces identity card, showing her in FANY uniform, Cairo
c
.1943.

21. Christine’s code card. One of the three code-poems written for her roughly translates: ‘Far behind me my southern French loves. My memories of happy years long gone. The weight and the hate, infernal desires, have destroyed my happiness and peace. I would like to forget.’

22. Christine’s commando knife.