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. Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold. 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 deemed 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. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War
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