Full name: The Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

Author: Judith L. Pearson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781592287628 9781599210728 159228762X 159921072X

Virginia Hall left comfortable Baltimore roots of privilege in 1931 to follow her dream of becoming a Foreign Service Officer. She watched as Hitler rolled into Poland, then France, and she decided to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). There she learned things her wealthy Baltimore contemporaries would never have imagined - demolitions, assassination, secret radio communications, and resistance organization. She was deployed to France where the Gestapo imprisoned, beat, and tortured spies. Against such an ominous backdrop, Hall managed to locate drop zones for the money and weapons so badly needed by the French Resistance, helped escaped POWs and downed Allied airmen flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents in need. Similar books: A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre Spymistress by William Stevenson Code Name: Lise by Larry Loftis A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas Waller A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose Madame Fourcade's Secret War by Lynne Olson Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty Avenue of Spies by Alex Kershaw Double Cross by Ben Macintyre Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre Indestructible by John R. Bruning No Cloak, No Dagger by Benjamin Cowburn The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand How Not to Die by Michael Greger The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls