Woman of no importance: the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II

By:

Purnell, Sonia

Publication details: Penguin Books, 2019. New York:Description: 352p.; pbk; 21cmISBN:

9780735225312

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.548641092 PUR

Summary: In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and–despite her prosthetic leg–helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558307/a-woman-of-no-importance-by-sonia-purnell/

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Includes index and references

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.”
The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and–despite her prosthetic leg–helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558307/a-woman-of-no-importance-by-sonia-purnell/

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