A Woman of No Importance

The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

De: Sonia Purnell

Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson

The New York Times best seller.

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance.

By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over.

This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity.

Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography

©2019 Sonia Purnell (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A rousing tale of derring-do." (The Times)

"Riveting." (Mick Herron)

"Superb." (Irish Times)

Perfect narration

I was familiar with Virginia Hall ( & Noor Kahn) having read Sarah Helm's book "A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII" in 2016.

I enjoyed getting to hear a much fuller account of her courage during WW11, and then her life after the war. To have given so much during the war and then to be side-lined afterwards must have been so hard .... and to have your mother not give her O.K. for you to marry the man you've been living together with off-and-on for years, until you're in your fifties.

This is the kind of book that encourages me to want to do more study about the character.