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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Purnell, Sonia, author.     Subjects     Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.     Women spies -- United States -- Biography.     Spies -- United States -- Biography.     Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Purnell, Sonia, author.       by title:      A woman of no import...         MARC Display

A woman of no importance [large type] : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II / Sonia Purnell. by Purnell, Sonia, author. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. Subjects Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982.   Women spies -- United States -- Biography.   Spies -- United States -- Biography.   Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- United States.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France. ISBN:  9781432869991 (large print ; hardback) 143286999X (large print ; hardback) Series:  Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. Description:  627 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm Edition:  Large print edition. Contents:  Prologue -- 1.The dream -- 2.Cometh the hour -- 3.My tart friends -- 4.Goodbye to Dindy -- 5.Twelve minutes, twelve men -- 6.Honeycomb of spies -- 7.Cruel mountain -- 8.Agent most wanted -- 9.Scores to settle -- 10.Madonna of the mountains -- 11.From the skies above -- 12.The CIA years -- Epilogue -- Agent names -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 guerrilla 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 940.54864 Goillot Pu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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