''Madeleine'' is a biography of

Noor Inayat Khan Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in the Second World War who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpo ...

, authored by her close friend

Jean Overton Fuller Jean Violet Overton Fuller (7 March 1915 – 8 April 2009) was a British author, poet, mystic, and painter. She is best known for her book ''Madeleine'', the biography of Noor Inayat Khan, an agent of the clandestine Special Operations Executi ...

, and first published by

Victor Gollancz Sir Victor Gollancz (; 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian. Gollancz was known as a supporter of left-wing politics. His loyalties shifted between liberalism and communism; he defined himself as a Christian ...

in 1952. It was initially rejected by six of seven publishers Fuller submitted it to, but eventually had some success and was reprinted in 1971, with added detail of Khan's ancestry.

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1952 non-fiction books British non-fiction books Biographies about writers Books about espionage Books about World War II {{WWII-book-stub