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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 command across France: "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 dubbed Churchill's "ministry of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A former female spy for the CIA during the height of the Cold War discusses the challenges of overcoming a prevailing culture of sexism while undertaking dangerous missions all over the globe.
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