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Mar 28, 2019 · Learn about Virginia Hall, the American woman who became the most dangerous Allied spy in Nazi-occupied France. She coordinated a network of spies, sabotaged enemy lines, and escaped from the Gestapo twice.
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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
Apr 9, 2019 · A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war.
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A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman’s fierce persistence helped win the war.
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Apr 18, 2019 · William Donovan, the OSS chief, gave Hall the Distinguished Service Cross — making her the only civilian woman to receive one in World War II. Hall's mother was the only outsider present at the...
This is the epic tale of an heiress who determined that a hunting accident would not define her existence; a young woman who gambled her life to fight for the freedoms she believed in; an espionage novice who helped to light the flame of French Resistance.
- Sonia Purnell
Mar 24, 2020 · She helped to pioneer a daredevil role of espionage, sabotage, and subversion behind enemy lines in an era when women barely featured in the prism of hero'sm, when their part in combat was confined to the supportive and palliative.
