A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
Virginia Hall-- rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg-- became the first woman to deploy to occupied France, before the United States had even entered the war. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Hall coordinated a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerrilla fighters. The Gestapo considered her the most dangerous of all Allied spies. Purnell tells the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war. -- adapted from jacket
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- ISBN: 0735225311
- ISBN: 9780735225312
- Physical Description: 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The dream -- Cometh the hour -- My tart friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- Twelve minutes, twelve men -- Honeycomb of spies -- Cruel mountain -- Agent most wanted -- Scores to settle -- Madonna of the mountains -- From the skies above -- The CIA years. |
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