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03331aam a22005418i 4500 001 1CB4C4F8FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 190531s2019 meu db 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019022676 020 $a 143286999X 020 $a 9781432869991 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Purnell, Sonia. 245 12 $a A woman of no importance : $h [large print] / $b the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II / $c by Sonia Purnell. 246 30 $a Untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2019. 300 $a 627 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Goillot, Virginia, $d 1906-1982. 650 0 $a Women spies $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Spies $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Intelligence officers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Secret service $z United States. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Underground movements $z France. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft. 650 $a Large type books. 941 $a 13 945 $a lpt 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710065427.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230401010132.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201022359.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215023020.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20211014010405.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063358.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20210504010943.0 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20201205010400.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200711010708.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200204021107.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20200130010355.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20191211014943.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20191105010542.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1CB4C4F8FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search