The Sufi Muslim Noor Inayat Khan - one of the first women to be interviewed by the SOE - was born in Moscow to an Indian father and American mother. Christine Granville, whose mother was born Jewish, was a patriotic Pole. Some of the women were very young, some beautiful, others plain, some were aristocrats, many were working-class. Virginia Hall who worked for both SOE and the American OSS, had a prosthetic leg.