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The year is 1942. The shadows of Vichy France, the Nazi puppet state, were crawling with danger. In Lyon, the third largest city in France, wanted posters started appearing on street corners. A rough sketch showed a woman’s face with sharp features and shoulder-length hair.
The Abwehr and the Gestapo relentlessly hunted the woman they knew only as “the limping lady”.
The woman in the poster was Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg and the unlikely mastermind behind the French Resistance in the south of France. The Gestapo's orders were clear and uncompromising: she was the most dangerous spy in the Allied forces, and they would stop at nothing to find and destroy her.
As the Gestapo closed in, the stakes grew ever higher. Would Virginia succeed in establishing a resistance network able to assist in the toppling of the German war machine, or would she be caught and the resistance crushed beneath the heel of the Third Reich?
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📕 A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell - amzn.to/3xJ7M7y
📘 Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy by Judith Pearson - amzn.to/3KpP9NQ
📗 S.O.E.: An outline history of the special operations executive 1940 - 46 by M.R.D Foot - amzn.to/3IjrhIO
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📕 Next Stop Execution by Oleg Gordievsky - amzn.to/3oQPA7U
📘 The Spy and the Traitor by Ben McIntyre - amzn.to/3SniRVh
📕 Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century - amzn.to/3J1u1wC
📘 The Widow Spy by Martha Peterson - amzn.to/3GY0lh5
📕 Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda - amzn.to/3ZVT1LO