Send us Fan Mail Meet Krystyna Skarbek (alias Christine Granville), Britain’s first and longest-serving female secret agent of World War II. Long before the world knew of Ian Fleming's James Bond or Vesper Lynd, this Polish-born countess was pulling off the most daring covert operations in espionage history. In this episode of Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History, we tell the remarkable true story of a woman who repeatedly stared down the Gestapo and won. From skiing across the perilous T...
