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Una mujer sin importancia, Sonia Purnell ; traducción: Alejandra Tapia Silva

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Una mujer sin importancia

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Sonia Purnell ; traducción: Alejandra Tapia Silva

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 warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France. Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold

Una mujer sin importancia, la historia inédita de la espía que burló a la Gestapo