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Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America´s Greatest Female Spy
Judith Pearson
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Description for Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America´s Greatest Female Spy
Paperback. The secret story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest World War II spy heroine. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she was considered so dangerous to the Gestapo that she had to escape over the Pyrenees mountains—on an artificial leg, no less. When she got to England, she was reassigned to France by the OSS, disguised as an old peasant woman. She helped ... Read more
Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she was considered so dangerous to the Gestapo that she had to escape over the Pyrenees mountains—on an artificial leg, no less. When she got to England, she was reassigned to France by the OSS, disguised as an old peasant woman. She helped ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781599210728
SKU
V9781599210728
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About Judith Pearson
Judith L. Pearson, award winning writer's career began in a tree: a wonderful old maple in her parents' backyard, with a perfect branch on which to sit and spill out her thoughts. Now hundreds of thousands of words later, this Michigan native is still writing.A graduate of Michigan State University, Pearson has written nearly two decades worth of newspaper and ... Read more
Reviews for Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America´s Greatest Female Spy
"Judith Pearson does a remarkable job of bringing one of America's greatest spies back to life. I highly recommend this story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense."-Patrick O'Donnell, Combat Historian and Author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs"A great, true, spy tale."
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