#KrystynaSkarbek
Happy Birthday to the talented #MorganePolanski 🎉

Catch her stellar leading turn in #ThePartisan based on the life of Britain’s first female spy #KrystynaSkarbek in epic WWII thriller on DVD & digital now #HighFliersFilms
January 20, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Delighted to see my biography - #TheSpyWhoLoved - of the 1st woman to serve Britain as a special agent in #WW2, ie #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, mentioned in this @thetimes.com coverage of #MI6 chief #BlaiseMetreweli’s speech.
December 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nice early Christmas present to receive these copies of #SpiesInHistory for which I write on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville whose remarkable story I told in my bk #TheSpyWhoLoved.
These essays were first published in the excellent #EngelsbergIdeas
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Great to see #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville highlighted on this Warsaw exhibition poster.
Shame they didn’t mention her securing the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison in the Alps! It’s all in my book, #TheSpyWhoLoved
July 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved.
#WW2 hero, secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison, smuggled vital intel across borders, saved lives. Murdered in London by a pathetic stalker #otd in 1952.
Gone but no longer forgotten.
June 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
- #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville - Britain’s 1st female special agent, served in 3 theatres, inc single-handed securing the defection of a German garrison in the Alps. Subject of my book #TheSpyWhoLoved
May 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Happy (𝟭𝟭𝟳th) birthday, Christine Granville, née Krystyna #Skarbek [°May 1, 1908 – June 15, 1952]🕯️🫡🌹

#SOE #SpecialOperationsExecutive #VeraAtkins #MI6 #SirWinstonChurchill #StefaniaGoldfeder #MariaKrystynaJaninaSkarbek #KrystynaSkarbek #ChristineGranville
May 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#KrystynaSkarbek, aka #ChristineGranville, was #BOTD 1908. Her amazing true story is told in my book #TheSpyWhoLoved
May 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My dble-page spread in today’s @DailyExpressRB #VEDay80 pull-out section. Headlined with the classic line: ‘Churchill said, “Set Europe Ablaze”!’
All about #KrystynaSkarbek & the courageous women who followed her footsteps as effective special agents for the Allies during #WW2
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is the ‘vanille’ pastry created in tribute to #ChristineGranville aka #KrystynaSkarbek subject of my book #TheSpyWhoLoved!
(She enjoyed cake at #ShepheardsHotel in #Cairo during the war, & loved clubs & glamour, so I think she’d have loved this!)
April 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
99p on #kindle today!
#KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved - on her own - secured the defection of an entire Nazi German garrison in the Alps… among much more…
April 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
What better gift for #ValentinesDay than #TheSpyWhoLoved?
After #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville had single-handedly secured the defection of a Nazi German garrison in the Alps, she rescued 3 male #SOE colleagues inc, her lover, from execution…
Makes the ❤️ beat faster!
February 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The wonderful #NationalPortraitGallery surprised me today… I went to give a talk about #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, as they’d just hung her portrait….
January 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Wonderful to be at the National Portrait Gallery ahead of my 1pm talk on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved.
The talk marks the gallery hanging the original photographic portrait of Skarbek donated by the family of #WilliamStanleyMoss following my introduction.
#historythreads
January 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Great to be talking about the women of SOE on the @WeHaveWaysPod . In this 1st episode of 3, we focus on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved:
January 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A privilege to be interviewed abt both #KrystynaSkarbek & #Elżbieta Zawacka at the @InstPileckiego in #NewYork.
Thx also for fab Polish cheesecake… & Pierogi in a cafe afterwards!
December 8, 2024 at 6:18 PM
This Friday I am being interviewed about 2 #WW2 heroes: #KrystynaSkarbek aka #Chrstine Granville, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, at the ⁦‪@PilsudskiUSA‬⁩ in #NYC!
A few tickets still available!
www.pilsudski.org/en/9-uncateg...
Book talk with Clare Mulley - December 6th at 6.30 pm
Join us on December 6th at 6.30 pm for an evening with the award-winning author and historian Clare Mulley, as she discusses her book,
www.pilsudski.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Delighted to be hosted by the #RoyalYachtSquadton book club this evening, on the #IsleOfWight, to discuss #TheSpyWhoLoved, my biography of the first woman to serve Britain as a special agent in the #SecondWorldWar, #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville .
November 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Great to see #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGanville #TheSpyWhoLoved remembered in the current edition of the #NationalPortraitGallery magazine, following the donation of this original photograph of her by her goddaughter :)
October 13, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Really pleased with this piece on #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved!
It marks the #NationalPortraitGallery displaying their new photo of her. I was delighted to introduce the generous donors, whose dad, #BillStanleyMoss, knew Krystyna in Cairo & London.
Can’t wait to see it up
August 23, 2024 at 4:46 PM
#OTD 1944, 80 yrs ago today, acting alone, Polish born #SOE agent #KrystynaSkarbek, aka #ChristineGranville, rescued 2 Brit & 1 French officer from prison in Nazi German occupied France just hours before their scheduled execution at a nearby football pitch.
Her full story is told in #TheSpyWhoLoved
August 13, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Thrilled these goodies from Bad Squiddo Games arrived today (I thought they’d take longer to cross the Atlantic). WRNS dispatch riders, Pulp Explorers, and SOE agent #KrystynaSkarbek (aka #ChristineGranville). First-time order...definitely not the last one. Many thanks!
badsquiddogames.com
July 10, 2024 at 12:57 AM
New plaque unveiled at Bramousee recognising the role played by Italian partisans, & British & Polish special agents, among them #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved. #OperationToplink aimed to divert German forces from the #Dragoon landings in S France.
July 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM