Noor Inayat Khan: The Sufi Princess Who Became Britain’s Loneliest Spy

She was a Sufi pacifist who wrote gentle children’s stories, descended from an Indian king. Her own trainers thought she was too soft for the work. Yet when every other British radio operator in Paris had been arrested, Noor Inayat Khan refused to come home — and for months she was the single thread of contact between the Resistance and London, the most hunted woman in the city.