A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

It was a boost to the social ladder however, that didn’t take Barbara as far as she had expected. Virginia was born in the year 1906 in Maryland and she was the daughter of a determined social climber, Barbara, who got married to her boss, the banker Edwin Lee Hall. However, our story doesn’t start in Europe, and its hero, Virginia Hall, wasn’t French either. The majority of them paid the crucial price. Outnumbered and poorly armed, members of the Resistance depended on their bravery in the face of frightening probabilities.

Average people were at the core of the Resistance, a rearguard insurgent campaign against Hitler’s strong army, the Wehrmacht. The fight against Nazi Germany in France in World War II was as heroic as it was bloody. A small number of people identified her name by the end of the war however, those people that did had no hesitation that she had been a tool in conquering Hitler’s Germany and redeeming France.Ĭhapter 1 – Virginia Hall was really independent to follow her mother’s request to settle down and marry. Virginia was a natural spy, creating a huge network of operatives across southern France and she was one of the top effective organizers of the Resistance. Provided half an opportunity to prove herself, Virginia outshined.

Who was Virginia Hall? An American socialite that has one wooden leg she referred to as Cuthbert, a Francophile who had driven military ambulances and the first Allied woman positioned behind enemy lines during the Second World War. That issue had a name called Virginia Hall. However, the new government had an issue to solve. Reluctant to inhabit the whole country, Hitler had fixed a puppet regime in the south. France had been conquered by Nazi Germany two years before. “Wanted” posters started showing in Lyon, France’s third-biggest city in the year 1942.

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell