Sonia Purnell.
SONIA PURNELL
thE UNTOLD STORY OF VIRGINA HALL, WWII’S MOST DANGEROUS SPY (2019)
Winner of the Plutarch Award, 2020.
A Book of the Year at the Times and the Spectator.
An American heiress who overcame a disability arising from a riding accident, Virginia Hall was during the Second World War one of the most effective operatives of the British Special Operations Executive. The first woman who infiltrated Vichy France for the SOE, she was known by the Nazis as the ‘imping lady’ on account of her wooden leg.
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Sonia Purnell is a leading British biographer whose books have sold more than a million copies and have been translated in 23 languages. Her subjects include Clementine Churchill, Boris Johnson, and Pamela Harriman Churchill.
