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035 _a(OCoLC)1040189301
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043 _an-us---
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092 _aGoillot V.
_bP985
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aPurnell, Sonia,
_eauthor.
_9383131
245 1 2 _aA woman of no importance :
_bthe untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II /
_cSonia Purnell.
246 3 0 _aUntold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
263 _a1904
264 1 _a[New York, New York] :
_bViking,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_bsti
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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 guerrilla 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.
505 0 _aThe dream -- Cometh the hour -- My tart friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- 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.
600 1 0 _aGoillot, Virginia,
_d1906-1982.
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650 0 _aWomen spies
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aSpies
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_963442
650 0 _aIntelligence officers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_950720
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xSecret service
_zUnited States.
_972193
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xUnderground movements
_zFrance.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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