A Woman of No Importance

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20.00
book_author_name: 
Sonia Purnell
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Little, Brown Book Group
published_date: 
28/03/2019
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9780349010182
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Books > Politics, Society & Education > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services
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Sonia Purnell|Hardback|Little, Brown Book Group|28/03/2019
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9780349010182
Book Description: 
In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France. The Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' 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. In so doing she helped turn the course of the intelligence war. 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. Based 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.

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