Sonia Purnell’s A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II elevates the jacket copy phrase “gripping narrative” to a whole new level, as Purnell tells the true story of woman warrior Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who took enormous risks in the service of helping the French Resistance during World War II.īy virtue of her moneyed upbringing, Hall learned early on some skills that would come in handy in a war: to “ride a horse, sail a boat, shoot, scale mountains, ski or cycle.” She longed to serve her country, but after being shut out of the American diplomatic corps, by the 1930s the best she could achieve was a clerical posting at the State Department.
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