Britain's first female second world war spy to get overdue recognition

Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville – Churchill’s favourite spy – will be honoured with bronze bust at Polish Hearth ClubShe was a glamorous countess and British spy whose extraordinary wartime heroics included skiing out of Nazi-occupied Poland with the first evidence of Operation Barbarossa – the Nazi plans to invade Soviet Russia.Later in the war she played a role in the liberation of France as first contact between the French Resistance and Italian Partisans, an