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Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy Paperback - 2008
by Pearson, Judith
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Virginia Hall sought a career in Foreign Service in 1930s Europe, but a physical handicap, her gender, and her outspoken political views stymied her diplomatic ambitions. A secret British intelligence group trained her in non-traditional sabotage techniques, and she became the greatest World War II spy heroine.
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- Title Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy
- Author Pearson, Judith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Lyons Press, Guilford
- Date 2008-05-13
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781599210728
- ISBN 9781599210728 / 159921072X
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.82 x 0.8 in (21.69 x 14.78 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Intelligence officers - United States, Spies - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
TO WALK THE STREETS OF SMYRNA was to exploit all of the senses.
From the rear cover
Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots of privilege in 1931 to follow a dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer. After watching Hitler roll into Poland, then France, she decided to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage organization. She was soon deployed to France where the Gestapo imprisoned, beat, and tortured spies.Against such an ominous backdrop, Hall managed to locate drop zones for money and weapons, helped escaped POWs and downed Allied airmen flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents. Soon, wanted posters appeared throughout France offering a reward for her capture. By winter of 1942 Hall had to flee France via the only route possible: a hike on foot through the frozen Pyrnes Mountains into neutral Spain.Upon her return to England, the OSS recruited her and sent her back to France disguised as an old peasant woman. While there, she was responsible for killing 150 German soldiers and capturing 500 others, sabotaging communications and transportation links, and directing resistance activities. This is the true story of Virginia Hall, a remarkable woman ignored by history books for over fifty years.
