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The Spy With the Wooden Leg

The Story of Virginia Hall

Nancy Polette
4.8
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Pages
160
Year
2013
Language
English

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Action-packed World War II spy biography! Ages 10+

How did a young woman become one of the bravest, most valued-and MOST WANTED-intelligence agents in World War II?

Virginia Hall had a dream to become the first woman ambassador for the United States. Turned down by the US State Department time and again, she could not stand idly by while the Nazi German army swept through Europe conquering country after country.

She volunteered to drive an ambulance in WWII France. She rescued downed airmen, radioed vital information to the Allies, and led three battalions of French Resistance forces in guerrilla warfare-all with a wooden leg!

Known as la dame qui boite or the Limping Lady, Virginia became a master British spy, rose to the top of the Gestapo's Most Wanted list, and turned the course of history!

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