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The story of Nora Inayat Khan is an affecting tale of incredible bravery, heroism, and selfless sacrifice. She nearly survived the war, but was captured only da
by nativeit 2y ago
The story of Nora Inayat Khan is an affecting tale of incredible bravery, heroism, and selfless sacrifice. She nearly survived the war, but was captured only days before she was due to be extracted, and died at the hands of one of Germany’s most sadistic torturers. Nora Khan was a “regular” citizen who rose to the moment, committed herself entirely to the allied cause, and nearly single-handedly maintained radio contact between Paris and London during a critical stage of the conflict.
- mangamadaiyan 2y ago> regular citizen Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan Not that this takes away anything from what you wrote, I just happened to be in one of my pedantic moods :)
- priprimer 2y agoroyal blood is one of them ideas even worse than the notion of race
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoI used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more. Bad turn of phrase, I guess.
- belter 2y agoYeah...Declare one person special by birth, and suddenly everyone remotely related claims they're elite too, spreading hierarchy through society...:-) I recognize only one sovereign:...The Burger King
- snapcaster 2y agoLong may he reign
- readthenotes1 2y agoMy heart aches for you. As does, no doubt, your stomach.
- belter 2y agoWe all serve someone...I just prefer mine flame-grilled...
- pwillia7 2y agoIs classism not more real than race?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoI mean, classism is about as real as racism but I don't know why one would ask about classism vs race. Class is about as not real as race; they're both things that people made up to justify their disrespectful behavior towards others.
- octopoc 2y agoIn what way is race not real? Race is determined by DNA.
- Log_out_ 2y agorace as an idea is a societywide royalty of blood, which is why its so widespread in failed democracies with despots."We are all zhar/oligarch/king" and those not from here are the serfs.its the very same idea just bastardized.
- fmajid 2y agoSome of it being the blood of Tippu Sultan, who died fighting against the British to protect the independence of Mysore (and whose rocket technology the British stole and led to the verse in "The Star-Spangled Banner" about "the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air"). If anyone had any reason not to assist the British Empire, it was her.
- gregmac 2y agoI was just listening to a podcast that did a season about her [1]. It's kind of in an audiobook style, with some guesses about dialog, which makes it pretty engaging to listen to beyond just that the story itself is interesting. If you're interested in it, they also did a season on Duško Popov [2] (supposedly the spy that was the inspiration for 007), and one on Aimen_Dean who was an MI6 spy in Al-Qaeda, which includes an interview with him at the end. [1] https://wondery.com/shows/the-spy-who/season/3/ https://wondery.com/shows/the-spy-who/season/3/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimen_Dean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimen_Dean
- 0x0203 2y agoAnother incredible agent in WWII was Virginia Hall, aka the limping lady, who managed some pretty incredible feats, escapes, and rescues and did so with only one leg. For a (hopefully entertaining) rundown of her exploits, you can watch this 22m video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdGS5ia2OQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRdGS5ia2OQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Hall
- bitcharmer 2y agoI wish Hollywood used these amazing women's stories to give us great movies instead of gender swapping male stories. There's plenty of people who would love to watch.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThe Russian sniper women still don’t have a good Hollywood movie about them. Russian government would be upset for bringing it up but the female snipers often worked in pairs and you can totally find some truthful bits of lesbianism to include… But instead of looking to really history that actually happened, we get the BF5 trailer fake history nonsense
- ipython 2y agoAlso the book “a woman of no importance” on her story is excellent reading.