[Obter] Epub A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the
American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By Sonia Purnell
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the
Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the
most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."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.Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story
remains untold. 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. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was
still strictly forbidden, Virginia Hall came to be known as the "Madonna of the
Resistance,"
