Title A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II / Sonia Purnell.

Publication Info.	[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	940.5486 PURNELL	DUE 05-21-24
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies	92 BIOGRAPHY GOILLOT	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	BIOG. HALL, VI.	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	940.5486 PURNELL	Check Shelf
Burlington Public Library - Adult Department	B HALL	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	940.5486 PURNELL	DUE 05-11-24
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	BIOGRAPHY GOILLOT	DUE 04-30-24
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	BIOGRAPHY HALL, VIRGINIA	DUE 04-30-24
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	B HALL V.	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	940.5486 PURNELL	Check Shelf

Description	352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.
Contents	The dream -- Cometh the hour -- My tart friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- Twelve minutes, twelve men -- Honeycomb of spies -- Cruel mountain -- Agent most wanted -- Scores to settle -- Madonna of the mountains -- From the skies above -- The CIA years.
Summary	Virginia Hall-- rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg-- became the first woman to deploy to occupied France, before the United States had even entered the war. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Hall coordinated a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerrilla fighters. The Gestapo considered her the most dangerous of all Allied spies. Purnell tells the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
Subject	Hall, 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.
	France -- History -- 20th century.
	Goillot, Virginia, 1906-1982. (OCoLC)fst00286208
	Intelligence officers. (OCoLC)fst00975843
	Secret service. (OCoLC)fst01110661
	Spies. (OCoLC)fst01129772
	War -- Underground movements. (OCoLC)fst01355184
	Women spies. (OCoLC)fst01178571
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biographies.
Added Title	Woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War 2
	Woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
	Woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War two
	Untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
ISBN	0735225311 (paperback)
	9780735225312 (paperback)
	9780735225299 (hardcover)
	073522529X (hardcover)
	9780735225305 (ebook)

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