Purnell, Sonia
Summary: "This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOIPurnell, Sonia
Summary: Late in life, Winston Churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been "impossible' without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. Why, then, do we know so little about her? A long overdue tribute to this remarkably resilient woman, Clementine plunges us into the Churchills' vibrant and tumultuous private world. It reveals just how much Winston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 110 NON FIC PURPurnell, Sonia
Summary: "The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019