The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
(2021)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ALINE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/ALINE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Atria Books, 2021
EDITION
First Atria books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

xvii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781982143862, 198214386X :, 198214386X, 9781982143862
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Dying to fight -- The farm -- Close encounters -- The clerk -- Man of swords -- Snatch-22 -- Death by murder -- Putting on the Ritz -- Glorious Gloria -- Visitors -- The body -- Resurrection -- The prisoner -- The Bohemian -- The lady vanishes -- The count -- Butch -- Pay dirt -- Intelligence goes to ground -- Paris -- La Tienta -- The bookkeeper -- Cortando la Coleta -- Countess Quintanilla -- Living the dream -- Twin souls -- The rest of the story

Chronicles the extraordinary life of OSS spy Aline Griffith, who performed deep-cover intelligence missions during and after World War II throughout the upper echelons of European politics and society