A Woman Of No Importance. The Untold Story Of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: Reprint

Description: 399 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and a crease to cover present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance. By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over. This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity.

ISBN: 9780349010168