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A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII Cover Image Book Book

A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII

Purnell, Sonia (author.).

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."--Back cover.

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  • ISBN: 9780735225299
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2019
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    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index.

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Subject: Goillot, Virginia -- 1906-1982
Women spies -- United States -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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