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![]() Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Virginia Hall was a woman of great importance. Her undercover work in the Second World War marks her as one of the greatest spies in American history. The dangers she faced, the risks she took, and the hardships she endured all for the sake of helping the French Resistance are unparalleled. That being said, this book was a slog to get through. Poorly organized, with numerous characters and many code names, it was difficult to keep track of the characters and their actions. Though evidently well researched, I never really got to know the people in this book, including the main character, so little was actually said about the people. This should have been a gripping account of a fascinating woman. Instead, because of its dry narrative and over abundance of facts that overwhelmed the reader without grasping the heart of Virginia Hall, it was not. Profiles the life of Virginia Hall, a socialite, who became the first Allied woman in WWII to be sent behind enemy lines. Despite her prosthetic leg, she helped establish spy networks throughout France, and even when her cover was blown, she refused orders to evacuate. Though she finally escaped France, she went back, saying that she had more lives to save. This was an astounding story of Virginia Hall and the many amazing things she did during the war. She endured cold, lack of food and pain from her prosthetic leg but never stopped working to sabotage the Germans. She was extremely loyal to the other people who were working with her and risking their lives too. She planned a number of prison breaks for those people who had been captured and succeeded. I also learned a lot about France’s situation during the war which filled gaps in my knowledge. An excellent and fascinating true story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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EN 1942 LA GESTAPO ENVIÓ UNA TRANSMISIÓN URGENTE: «ELLA ES LA MÁS PELIGROSA DE TODAS LAS ESPÍAS ALIADAS. DEBEMOS ENCONTRARLA Y DESTRUIRLA». Virginia Hall, una joven estadounidense rechazada por el Servicio de su país por ser mujer y por haber perdido la pierna izquierda, fue la primera espía en ingresar a una misión secreta en Francia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sus proezas son muestra del valor y la astucia que la caracterizaron como agente. Se infiltró como periodista en Vichy y en Lyon, peligrosamente cerca de los nazis; organizó una red de agentes bajo el territorio enemigo; liberó a prisioneros de situaciones que parecían irremediables; y hasta dinamitó puentes para sabotear las operaciones alemanas. Su fama la consagró como la Dama Coja: la espía más buscada por la Gestapo. Con todo y Cuthbert, su pierna prostética, cruzó los Pirineos a pie para huir de los nazis y, después de la guerra, se convirtió en una de las primeras agentes de la CIA. Virginia fue una de las espías más grandes de la historia; sin embargo, su vida permanecía sin contarse... hasta ahora. Una mujer sin importancia revela el cautivador relato de una heroína poderosa, influyente y sorprendentemente ignorada. Gracias a su capacidad para sobrepasar sus limitaciones físicas y la discriminación de género, Virginia Hall logró cambiar el curso de la historia.La historia inédita de la espía que burló a la Gestapo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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is yet another book that shows how grossly incompetent the SOE was. If they achieved anything, and they did achieve a lot, it was because of the excellent men and women who went into the field and not because of those who directed from behind their desks in London. Many of those in London, and particularly Maurice Buckmaster, the head of the French section, should have been court-martialed or put on trial after the war. Instead they bestowed honors upon him. (