![]() ![]() ![]() Purnell is also the author of Just Boris, a biography of the current British prime minister, Boris Johnson. Her study of Winston Churchill’s wife Clementine, First Lady, was hailed as the “book of the year” by numerous newspapers and nominated for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. She has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times. Sonia Purnell is a biographer and journalist. Along the way, you’ll discover how the “limping lady” dodged Gestapo agents, martialled the French resistance and revolutionized spycraft. ![]() In these blinks, we’ll follow Virginia from her Maryland home to the jazz clubs of interwar Paris and the warren-like streets of Lyon, the city in which she learned her trade. A Woman of No Importance (2019) sheds light on the shadowy world of wartime espionage and the career of one of the Allies’ most effective spies in the battle against Nazi Germany – Virginia Hall. Sonia Purnell, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II 1 likes Like Four thousand miles away in France, the old boys from the Haute-Loire Resistance wrote to each other to share the devastating news. ![]()
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