![]() ![]() In 1939, after another rejection for a diplomatic position, she leaves U.S. embassy in Turkey, where her accident occurs. She settles for a clerical position (the standard assignment for a female applicant at the time) at the U.S. After grad school in Paris, she applies for the diplomatic service and is declined. Ten years before going undercover in France, she loses her leg in a hunting accident while serving as a State Department clerk in Turkey.īaltimore-born Hall hails from a prominent banking family. ![]() All along, she defies gender-role obstacles deployed by intransigent and often bumbling male opposition, much of it officers who outrank her.īut here’s the real stunner in this bold and fearless woman’s saga, a factor that might have deterred (or disqualified) a less-determined individual: Hall’s right leg is missing below the knee. ![]() Author Sonia Purnell has turned out a thoroughly gripping and inspiring account bristling with real-life suspense of an American’s unlikely role in the struggle against Hitler’s occupying forces.Įxpert in evasion, close combat, and disguise, Hall repeatedly eludes her pursuers - Gestapo and Vichy collaborators alike - from 1940 through the Nazi retreat from France in early 1945. ![]() A Woman of No Importance chronicles the remarkable life of Virginia Hall, a decorated behind-the-lines operative for the Allies in Vichy France in WWII. ![]()
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