A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By Sonia Purnell

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Sonia Purnell's biography of Virginia Hall, the American who worked for Britain's Special Operations Executive in occupied France despite a prosthetic leg, building Resistance networks the Gestapo hunted as the most dangerous Allied spy.

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