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After a prologue describing Khan's final journey to Dachau, early chapters cover her ancestry and early life in Moscow, London and Paris. The book dispels some previously held accounts of Khan, including dismissing that she was recruited during a tiger-hunt in India, that her father was associated
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and then ultimately Dachau after 10-months of imprisonment and torture, but she revealed nothing. Despite sending the appropriate warning code that should have alerted the SOE to her capture, the SOE did not believe her and the
Germans continued to use her transmitter to send messages to London,
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The 2020 reprint of the second edition has 10 chapters, preceded by a map of the
Prospect circuits in France, a foreword by M. R. D. Foot, acknowledgements and an introduction. In the book, Basu acknowledges Sutton Publishing for first commissioning and publishing it. Following a section titled
642:, wrote that Khan "ought to be as popular a heroine in British schools as Florence Nightingale once was" and described the book as a "moving and scrupulous biography" that should be taught in British schools. In 2018, the book was referenced in an obituary on Khan in the
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