Kowerski, who had lost part of his leg in a pre-war hunting accident, was now exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personnel and collecting intelligence. Skarbek managed to meet with Captain Albert Schenck, an Alsatian who acted as liaison officer between the local French prefecture and the Gestapo. Throughout the war, she displayed unmatched courage and resourcefulness, undertaking numerous dangerous missions in Nazi-occupied Europe.

She eventually found work as a stewardess on board two passenger ships sailing to Africa, which turned out to be another source of humiliation. Her father was Count Jerzy Skarbek, a Polish aristocrat, while her mother, Stefania Goldfeder, came from a Jewish banking background. It became necessary for Christine to apply for Naturalisation as a British Citizen, as it would have been deadly dangerous for her as an ex-agent of the British Special Operations Executive to attempt to live in then Russian-dominated Poland.An accomplished skier, she planned to use her friends in the local area to assist her in undertaking missions to help the resistance fighters in Poland. Not long after their marriage they embarked on their travels which took them to Africa where Gizycki would hold a post in the Polish consulate of Addis Ababa.

During her stay in Poland, Krystyna Skarbek got hold of the documents with the day of the Nazi invasion on USRR. Her charisma and charm seemed to captivate all who encountered her, earning her the admiration of countless men. They were smuggled out of Hungary and into Yugoslavia and then, hidden in the boots of two cars, they fled Nazi occupied Europe and eventually made it safely to SOE headquarters in Egypt. On the morning of 14 July came a daylight drop of light arms and supplies from 72 American B-17s, the largest single-day airdrop to the maquis during World War II.Afterwards, she repaired her health by hiking in the Tatra Mountains, and working as a journalist in Cieszyn. In late February, Skarbek and Kowerski continued their journey in the Opel, first to Sofia, Bulgaria. A brilliant account of a remarkable woman, one of those countless people often reduced to footnotes in larger broader histoory boos who deserve books on their own. She was a ‘daddy’s girl’, and her father taught her to ride horses, which she did astraddle like a man, in contrast to most women, who rode sidesaddle.

She persuaded Polish Olympic skier Jan Marusarz, brother of Nordic skier Stanisław Marusarz, to escort her across the snow-covered Tatra Mountains into Nazi-occupied Poland.Apparently no fireworks ensued when he met Kowerski, and they persuaded him to go to Budapest to take over Skarbek's previous role as the contact point for the British with the Polish resistance.

According to Larecki, her true birthplace was the home of her Goldfeder grandparents at ulica Zielna 45 in Warsaw. Many times she managed to outsmart Gestapo officers, she stole the plans of the German invasion on USRR, and was able to take not only herself but others off the hook. Soon after, he accepted a diplomatic posting to Ethiopia, where he served as Poland's consul general until September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. At fourteen, he had quarrelled with his father, run away from home, and worked in the United States as a cowboy and gold prospector.She proved to be courageous and smart when she took a conspiratorial Tatra mountain trail through Slovakia to occupied Poland. Granville’s most legendary exploit was securing the release of Cammaerts and two other agents after they had been arrested by the Gestapo and were awaiting execution. For her exploits she was awarded a George Medal and OBE by the British and a Croix de Guerre by the French. The microfilm was sent to Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London, who could scarcely believe it; but by March, with information from other sources, the Prime Minister was persuaded that Skarbek and Kowerski's intelligence was accurate. This section was only set up in the wake of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa, partly with staff from London (F Section) and partly with staff from Cairo (MO.