![]() ![]() ![]() She finally escaped through a death-defying hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown. Even as her face covered wanted posters and a bounty was placed on her head, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. Virginia established vast spy networks throughout France, called weapons and explosives down from the skies, and became a linchpin for the Resistance. ![]() 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. 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." In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II ![]()
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