Sonia Purnell
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"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 organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
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A portrait of Winston Churchill's extraordinary wife and her lesser-known role in World War II discusses her relationship with political mentor Eleanor Roosevelt, her role in safeguarding Churchill's health throughout key historical events and her controversial family priorities.
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Virginia Hall, una joven estadounidense rechazada por el Servicio de su pa?s por ser mujer y por haber perdido la pierna izquierda, fue la primera esp?a en ingresar a una misi?n secreta en Francia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sus proezas son muestra del valor y la astucia que la caracterizaron como agente. Se infiltr? como periodista en Vichy y en Lyon, peligrosamente cerca de los nazis; organiz? una red de agentes bajo el territorio enemigo;...
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