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HTML: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 persist… (mais)
Virginia Hall was one of the most amazing women who most of us have never heard of. Purnell gives a good history of this brave and intelligent woman who, although she was American, worked with the British to organize groups of the French Resistance to sabotage and attack the Germans leading up to the after the D-Day landings. And it wasn't just the great work she accomplished; all the way along she had to combat male chauvinism and hide her disability to be able to do what she did.
is yet another book that shows how grossly incompetent the SOE was. If they achieved anything, and they did achieve a lot, it was because of the excellent men and women who went into the field and not because of those who directed from behind their desks in London. Many of those in London, and particularly Maurice Buckmaster, the head of the French section, should have been court-martialed or put on trial after the war. Instead they bestowed honors upon him. ( )
Virginia Hall was a woman of great importance. Her undercover work in the Second World War marks her as one of the greatest spies in American history. The dangers she faced, the risks she took, and the hardships she endured all for the sake of helping the French Resistance are unparalleled. That being said, this book was a slog to get through. Poorly organized, with numerous characters and many code names, it was difficult to keep track of the characters and their actions. Though evidently well researched, I never really got to know the people in this book, including the main character, so little was actually said about the people. This should have been a gripping account of a fascinating woman. Instead, because of its dry narrative and over abundance of facts that overwhelmed the reader without grasping the heart of Virginia Hall, it was not. ( )
Profiles the life of Virginia Hall, a socialite, who became the first Allied woman in WWII to be sent behind enemy lines. Despite her prosthetic leg, she helped establish spy networks throughout France, and even when her cover was blown, she refused orders to evacuate. Though she finally escaped France, she went back, saying that she had more lives to save.
This was an astounding story of Virginia Hall and the many amazing things she did during the war. She endured cold, lack of food and pain from her prosthetic leg but never stopped working to sabotage the Germans. She was extremely loyal to the other people who were working with her and risking their lives too. She planned a number of prison breaks for those people who had been captured and succeeded. I also learned a lot about France’s situation during the war which filled gaps in my knowledge. An excellent and fascinating true story. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The Resistance was a way of life. ... We see ourselves there utterly free ... as unknown and unknowable version of ourselves, the kind of people no one can ever find again, who existed only in relation to unique and terrible conditions ... to ghosts, or to the dead ... [Yet] I would call that moment of my life "Happiness." —Jean Cassou, Toulouse Resistance leader and poet
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convicted Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls. —Robert F. Kennedy
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Sue 1951-2017. Courage comes in many forms.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
[Prologue] France was falling.
Mrs. Barbara Hall had it all worked out.
[Epilogue] Virginia did not receive the recognition she deserved during her CIA career, but toward the end of her life there were signs that her legacy was becoming better understood.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
[Prologue] Even that, though, was not enough for her.
When they talked with awe and affection of her incredible exploits, they smiled and looked up at the wide, open skies with "les etoiles dans les yeux."
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Women's Studies.
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HTML: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 persist
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is yet another book that shows how grossly incompetent the SOE was. If they achieved anything, and they did achieve a lot, it was because of the excellent men and women who went into the field and not because of those who directed from behind their desks in London. Many of those in London, and particularly Maurice Buckmaster, the head of the French section, should have been court-martialed or put on trial after the war. Instead they bestowed honors upon him. (