| International Standard Book Number |
9780735225312 : (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0735225311 : PAP
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
B 23
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
940.54/8641092
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| Personal Name |
Purnell, Sonia, author.
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| Title Statement |
A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II / Sonia Purnell.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
2020.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
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| Physical Description |
352 p. illustrations ; Softcover 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
text rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The Dream -- Cometh the Hour -- My Tart Friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- Twelve 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.
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| Summary, Etc. |
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day. Based 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. A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spies United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Intelligence officers United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women spies United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France.
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| Other Edition Entry |
Purnell, Sonia. Woman of no importance [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019] (DLC) 2018060359.
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| Other Edition Entry |
Reproduction of (manifestation):
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