Krystyna skarbek biography of rory
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The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of One of Britain’s Bravest Heroines
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of One of Britain’s Bravest Heroines
By Clare Mulley
Pan Books, London 2013
The title of this new biography of Krystyna Skarbek is quirky: The Spy Who Loved.
Loved whom, loved what? Is something missing? Is it a play on Ian Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me?
Krystyna skarbek biography of rory anderson
Start reading; you are about to meet a woman unlike any other.
Clare Mulley’s Preface sets the stage by presenting a most unusual scenario: a half a dozen men, all former lovers and colleagues of the alluring and enigmatic Krystyna, meet in a London club after her death promising to ensure that her reputation would never be tarnished by sensationalism.
They all had loved her and all clearly respected the fact that she, in turn, had simply… loved. This misguided gallantry – Skarbek never courted anyone’s approval – may have deprived her of the recognition she deserved while shielding those responsib