A Woman Of No Importance: The Untold Story Of Virginia Hall, Wwii’s Most Dangerous Spy – ‘Reads Like A Thriller’ (Ben Macintyre)

Name: A Woman Of No Importance: The Untold Story Of Virginia Hall, Wwii's Most Dangerous Spy - 'Reads Like A Thriller' (Ben Macintyre)
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By (author) Sonia Purnell,

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The New York Times bestseller: the incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied spy, written by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell.

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ISBN: 9780349010168

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 416

Dimensions: 12.6 × 3.4 × 19.6 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 416 pages
Dimensions 12.6 × 3.4 × 19.6 cm | 337
Publication Date 02 April 2020
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Sonia Purnell

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Sonia Purnell is a prize-winning and bestselling biographer, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, whose books have sold over 1 million copies in English worldwide. Her latest work, Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, power & intrigue, was published to huge media acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Purnell is interested in setting the record straight on twentieth-century women whose lives have been overlooked, misrepresented or misunderstood by history, works that led to her recently being described as 'one of the most accomplished biographers of our time' (Liza Mundy). A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, won the 2020 Plutarch Award for Best Biography and was a New York Times bestseller. Her book First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill was a book of the year in the Daily Telegraph and Independent and was shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. Her first book, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, was longlisted for the Orwell prize.

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