![]() ![]() adapted from jacketīook Synopsis A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Purnell tells the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war. The Gestapo considered her the most dangerous of all Allied spies. 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. ![]() About the Book 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. ![]()
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