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Product: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Description: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
“Excellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” -- The New York Times Book Review
"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little resistance." - NPR
"A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller." - Ben Macintyre
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.
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 guerilla 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.
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Product: Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series)
Brand: Henry Holt and Co.
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Product: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Brand: Simon & Schuster
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Product: History of the World Map by Map
Brand: DK
Color: Grey
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Product: History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day
Brand: DK
Color: Multicolor
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Product: Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product: Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers
Brand: Viking
Color: Multicolor
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Product: The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
Brand: Mariner Books
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Product: F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School
Brand: Tarcherperigee
Color: Black
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Product: Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Brand: Basic Books
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Product: The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
Brand: Dutton Caliber
Color: Multicolor
Nal Caliber
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Product: Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Brand: Anchor
Color: Multicolor
Soldiers
WW II
Rescue
Mission
Phillipines
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Product: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Brand: Crown
Color: Black
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Product: The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
Brand: Da Capo Press
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Product: A People's History of the United States
Brand: Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Product: The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Brand: Broadway Books
Color: Multicolor
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