Tag: Virginia Hall

Meet Virginia Hall, Famous WWII Spy With a Prosthetic Leg

The cruel Pyrenees Mountains stared down at Virginia Hall in November 1942. As a spy for Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), Hall had risked her life gathering information and establishing safe houses for downed Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots. Though this brave American woman had operated for over a year out of the French city…


Book Review: ‘A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II’

A British biographer and journalist, Sonia Purnell poured through documents in England and the United States for more than three years as well as conducting countless interviews to write the book “A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II.” A credit to her craft, Purnell…