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The Never-before-told Story Of One Woman's Heroism That Changed The Course Of The Second World War In 1942, The Gestapo Sent Out An Urgent Transmission: She Is The Most Dangerous Of All Allied Spies. We Must Find And Destroy Her. This Spy Was Virginia Hall, A Young American Woman--rejected From The Foreign Service Because Of Her Gender And Her Prosthetic Leg--who Talked Her Way Into The Spy Organization Dubbed Churchill's Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, And, Before The United States Had Even Entered The War, Became The First Woman To Deploy To Occupied France. Virginia Hall Was One Of The Greatest Spies In American History, Yet Her Story Remains Untold. Just As She Did In Clementine, Sonia Purnell Uncovers The Captivating Story Of A Powerful, Influential, Yet Shockingly Overlooked Heroine Of The Second World War. At A Time When Sending Female Secret Agents Into Enemy Territory Was Still Strictly Forbidden, Virginia Hall Came To Be Known As The Madonna Of The Resistance, Coordinating A Network Of Spies To Blow Up Bridges, Report On German Troop Movements, Arrange Equipment Drops For Resistance Agents, And Recruit And Train Guerilla Fighters. Even As Her Face Covered Wanted Poster

Author

Purnell, Sonia, author

Publisher

London: Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780349010182

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir