![]() “Brilliant…It’s a cllché to describe a true-life spy story as being as gripping as any thriller, but it really is the case… superb biography.” This is the epic tale of an heiress from Maryland who determined that a hunting accident would not define her existence a young woman who gambled her life to fight alongside the British for the freedoms she believed in an espionage novice who helped to light the flame of French Resistance, and who would lead a guerrilla campaign to help liberate great swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day.īased 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 In so doing she helped turn the course of the intelligence war. 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. Consumed with rage at her daring, Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who had eluded its clutches to fight for the freedom of France. ![]()
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