A Woman of No Importance
The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy
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A Woman of No Importance
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Sonia Purnell
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The New York Times best seller.
In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance.
By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over.
This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity.
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
©2019 Sonia Purnell (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
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"A rousing tale of derring-do." (The Times)
"Riveting." (Mick Herron)
"Superb." (Irish Times)
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This is a crimi, history, teaching, inspirational, and feminist book in one!!! It reveals a story of an american woman who organized most of the French resistance during #WW2. All plots and stories are worth to be filmed and re-told - how to motivate and connect, how to command and earn respect, how to act and survive when it is not possible to survive.
The hero of the story - #virginiahall - was honored mostly after her death in 1982. Despite achieving enormous success in the operations, she was seldom valued and acknowledged back home, in peace times among the male-only environment.
She was " the only 1 woman" so many times that I have lost the count.
I could only recommend this well written book - let us learn #herstory from a real #warhero
must read!
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