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The remarkable tale of one of WWII's very best spies. Virginia Hall kept her comfortable Baltimore root base in 1931 to follow a imagine learning to be a Foreign Service Officer. After watching Hitler move over Poland and France, she enlisted to be employed by the British isles Special Operations Exec (SOE), a secret espionage and sabotage group. She was soon deployed to occupied France where, if captured, imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Gestapo was basically assured. Against this ominous backdrop, Hall managed to locate drop zones for money and weaponry, helped escaped POWs and downed Allied airmen flee to Great britain, and guaranteed safe homes for agencies. And she did it all on one lower leg: Virginia Hall had lost her kept leg prior to the battle in a hunting car accident. Soon, required posters came out throughout France, supplying a reward on her behalf catch. By winter of 1942, Hall was required to flee France via the only route possible: A hike on foot through the iced Pyrnes Mountains into natural Spain. Upon her return to Great britain, the American espionage group, the Office of Special Services, recruited her and sent her back to France disguised as a vintage peasant woman. While there, she was accountable for eliminating 150 German troops and recording 500 others. Sabotaging marketing communications and transportation links and directing resistance activities, her work helped change the span of the war. This is actually the true tale of Virginia Hall.
