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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By Purnell, Sonia
- ISBN
- 9780735225299 9780735225305
- Publisher
- Penguin
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Reviewed on March 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
In her latest work, journalist Purnell (Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill) examines the life of Virginia Hall (1906–82), an American woman who became an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) spy in occupied France in World War II, despite being originally turned down for U.S. Foreign Service because of her gender and prosthetic leg. In the face of this rejection, she traveled to England, joined the Specia...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
