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Purnell, Sonia.
Subjects
Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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Purnell, Sonia.
Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
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A
woman
of
no
importance
: the
untold
story
of the
American
spy
who
helped
win
World
War
II
/ Sonia Purnell.
by
Purnell, Sonia.
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Call #:
940.548641 P985w
Subjects
Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.
Women spies -- United States -- Biography.
Spies -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.
World
War
, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
ISBN:
9780735225299 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Untold
story
of the
American
spy
who
helped
win
World
War
II
Description:
352 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-334) and index.
Contents:
The dream -- Cometh the hour -- My tart friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- Twelve minutes, twelve men -- Honeycomb of spies -- Cruel mountain -- Agent most wanted -- Scores to settle -- Madonna of the mountains -- From the skies above -- The CIA years.
Summary:
"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 her." This
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 dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the
war
, became the first
woman
to deploy to occupied France. Virginia Hall was 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 equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerilla fighters. Even as her face covered WANTED posters throughout Europe, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped with her life in a grueling hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown, and her associates all imprisoned or executed. But, adamant that she had "more lives to save," she dove back in as soon as she could, organizing forces to sabotage enemy lines and back up Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches. Told with Purnell's signature insight and novelistic panache, A
Woman
of
No
Importance
is the breathtaking
story
of how one
woman
's fierce persistence
helped
win
the
war
."--From publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
Holds:
6
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Status
Due Date
Central Library
Adult Biography
940.548641 P985w
Core Collection - Adult
Checked out
Aug 22, 2024
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Biography
940.548641 P985w
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 25, 2024
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