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"A Woman of No Importance"/Book Club

Date and Time

Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM Mountain Time (US & Canada) (UTC-07:00)

Location

Eloise May Library
1471 S Parker Road
Denver, CO  
USA

Event Contact(s)

Chris Chamberlain

Category

Book Club

Registration Info

Registration is required

About this event

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell is the book we will be reading.

The never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.

in 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.
Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. But she plunged back in, adamant that she had more lives to save, and led a victorious guerilla campaign, liberating swathes of France from the Nazis after D-Day.

Leslie will moderate the discussion.
We are meeting on Tuesday night because the room we meet in is not available on Monday night for this month.