Book Discussion: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII details the life of 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.

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