The Wolves at the Door
The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
This WWII espionage biography brings one of America's greatest spies back to life in a story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs) Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender-and her wooden leg-kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced across Europe, she put her gift for languages to use with the British Special Operations Executive, a secret espionage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where she located drop zones, helped prisoners of war flee to England, and secure…
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- ISBN: 978-1-62681-292-5
- EAN: 9781626812925
- Produktnummer: 33946000
- Verlag: Diversion Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 374 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'208 KB
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