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Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. 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. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people - and a little resistance." - NPRĪ never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. “E xcellent…This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.” - The New York Times Book Review TolkienĬhosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games

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