KINDLE [A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II]

• Hardcover
• 368
• A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
• Sonia Purnell
• English
• 26 October 2020
• 9780735225299

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Download A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Download Õ A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 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 euipment drops for Resistance agents and recruit and train guerilla fighters Even as her I recently read a novel about a couple who had worked with the French Resistance and it made me want to read a nonfict

Download A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Download Õ A Woman of No Importance The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 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 herThis 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 deemed Churchill's ministry of ungentlemanly warfare and before the United States had even entered the war became the first woman to deploy to occupied FranceVirginia Hall was 35The content is 5 stars This was an absolutely fascinating story and I would love to go back in time and have dinner