num_pages: 288
description: Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service. But as Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe she went to work for the British Special Operations Executive. She was assigned to France where she became the architect of the Resistance movement in central France helping escaped prisoners of war and American Allied paratroopers. The Gestapo considered her so dangerous they put a price on her head forcing her to escape over the Pyrenees mountains--and on an artificial leg. When she got to England she was reassigned to France disguised as an old peasant woman. Her spy circuit captured 500 German soldiers and killed more than 150 while they sabotaged Nazi communication and transportation facilities. Hitler's forces were hot on her trail yet her daring intelligence activities and indomitable spirit defied the expectations of even the Allies until the very end of the war.To the Germans she was the lady with a limp. To the Allies she was a savior. This is her true story and her ONLY biography to include actual information from those brave men who were a part of her spy circuit.
language: English
title: Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy
publisher: Lyons Press