Flying low over the mountain range dividing wartime Czechoslovakia and , the Luftwaffe fighter pilot trained his machine-gun fire on the beautiful young woman hiking alone across the treacherous terrain below.There was no doubt that this was Christine Granville, Winston Churchill's favourite spy, who was long suspected of smuggling money, explosives and anti-German propaganda to European resistance fighters.And now, finally, she was 'trapped like an ant on a tablecloth', as the pilot who spotted her put it.
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