![]() ![]() The book (Viking, 368 pp.★★★ out of four) was out Tuesday.ĥ books not to miss this week: Susan Choi's 'Trust Exercise,' 'The Hill to Die On,' 'Book of Dreams' In "A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II," Sonia Purnell resurrects the compelling saga of a remarkable woman whose persistence was honed early on by her battles against low gender expectations and later on by her disability: she had a wooden leg. Her status, if long overlooked in the history of World War II for her contribution to the liberation of France, was well understood at the time by Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo leader known as the “Butcher of Lyon.” She was atop his most-wanted list, and, if captured, a horrific death awaited her. She had been fighting Hitler for nearly two years when her country backed into the war in Europe after Pearl Harbor. ![]() She was, to be sure, a crackerjack infiltrator, first for the British and later for her own country.īut she also was a guerrilla leader fighting the good fight against Nazi Germany four years before the allies landed at Normandy in 1944. Virginia Hall was considerably more than simply an American spy. ![]()
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