![]() ![]() This is the epic tale of an heiress who determined that a hunting accident would not define her existence a young woman who gambled her life to fight for the freedoms she believed in an espionage novice who helped to light the flame of French Resistance.īased on new and extensive research, Sonia Purnell has for the first time uncovered the full secret life of Virginia Hall, an astounding and inspiring story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. Genres NonfictionHistoryBiographyWorld War IIWarHistoricalAudiobook.more. In so doing she helped turn the course of the intelligence war. Told with Purnell's signature insight and novelistic flare, A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war. ![]() ![]() The Gestapo's target was Virginia Hall, a glamorous American with a wooden leg who broke through the barriers against her gender and disability to be the first woman to infiltrate Vichy France for the SOE. The Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France. ![]()
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