Woman of No Importance. The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, Paperback - Sonia Purnell

The New York Times bestseller: the incredible untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France fo...

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Learn about Virginia Hall, the "most dangerous of all Allied spies", in this exciting biography! In The Lady is a Spy, award-winning author Don Mit...

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1942. Odette Sansom decides to follow in her war hero father's footsteps by becoming an SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. ...

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Arthur Komori, a Nisei from Hawai'i, was one of two Japanese Americans recruited to the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to pose as Japanes...

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Reducere. DescriptionDanger was the air she breathed. Pain was her companion. Freedom was her heartbeat. In World War II France, she went by the name of Mari...

Reducere. On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found thems...

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Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593), is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan spy and diplomat who was am...

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The first full biography of Clementine Churchill since the international bestseller by her daughter Mary Soames in 1981. Sheds new light on the piv...

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Reducere. In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central In...