The Mysterious Virginia Hall
- Author Claudia Friddell
- Narrator Nan Mcnamara
- Publisher Recorded Books, Inc.
- Run Time 3 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces.
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What to expect
biography of Virginia Hall, World War II’s most successful female spy, will inspire reluctant readers and budding
history buffs alike.
Virginia Hall, known to her family as “Dindy,” was an athletic, outdoorsy girl who dreamed of joining the foreign
service and becoming an ambassador. Despite numerous setbacks, including losing her leg to gangrene after
an accident, Virginia never wavered in her determination to serve her country. After the outbreak of World War
II, a chance meeting on a train changed her life—George Bellows, an agent of the British Special Operations
Executive, recruited her as one of its first women agents. Working for Allied intelligence services in France,
Virginia Hall organized French resistance fighters, performed daring rescues, and provided the Allies with
intelligence that was key for ousting the Nazis and earned her numerous medals, including the US Army’s
Distinguished Service Cross.
With chapters titled for each of the many aliases and nicknames used by Virginia Hall, this book takes readers
through her extraordinary life and her evolution as a resistance fighter and intelligence operative. Award-winning
author Claudia Friddell brings Virginia Hall’s bravery, intelligence, and determination to life in this thoroughly
researched and photo-filled biography endorsed by Hall’s family.
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