A woman without any importance: the untold story of American detective who helped win World War II

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A New York Times Bestseller
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Winner of Plutark Award for Best Biography
“Excellent … This book is riveting as any thriller, and it is difficult to keep down.” – The New York Times Book Review
“A compelling biography of an excellent detective, and reminiscent of what can be done with some brave people – and little resistance.” – NPR
“A beautiful history that reads like a thriller.” – Ben McIntair
A never told the story of the Virginia Hall, the American spy who replaced the second World War course with the author of Clementine.
In 1942, Gestapo sent an immediate transmission: “He is the most dangerous among all the concerned detectives. We have to find and destroy it.”
His sites had the target Virginia Hall, a Baltimore Socialte, who spoke to the special operational executive, spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of War of Anjentalman”. She became the first affiliated woman posted behind the enemy lines and except her artificial legs to lighten the flame of-French resistance, as we know by bringing a revolution in secret war.
Virginia established a huge detective network across France, called weapons and explosives from the sky, and became a lynchpin for resistance. Even the poster covering his face and a reward was placed on his head, Virginia refused the order following an order to vacate the order. She finally ran through a death-conversion growth at Pirenis in Spain, flying her cover. But she returned, it was noted that there was more life to save her, and led a victorious guerrilla campaign, which was freed from the Nazis after D-Day to free the swaths of France from the Nazis.
Based on new and comprehensive researches, Sonia Parnel has exposed the first secret life of the Virginia Hall-a surprising and inspiring story that is a personal victory over bravery, spicraft, resistance and shocking adversity. A woman without any importance is how a woman’s fierce perseverance helped win the war.

Publisher

Publisher: Penguin Books; Rage Edition (March 24, 2020)
language English
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0735225311
ISBN -13: 978-0735225312
Items Weight: 2.31 pounds
Dimensions: 5.48 x 0.8 x 8.38 inch