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Incredible story, could not put it down.
Gonna keep this short since I'm tired. This was one of those books that was hard to put down. It is too bad that Virginia Hall never left her memories of her service in WW2 for history. But Sonia Purnell wove the surviving threads of her story together in a way that I can only imagine is the next closest thing. Considering the difficulty of bringing this story out of the shadows, after many of it's key actors have left us, and old records lost or dispersed to various places, it must have been a huge a task to create this book. There is almost certainly parts of Virginia Hall's story that are still missing, and may never be known, though it did not feel like anything was missed while I was reading the book. It is an incredible story.
April 2019 · Books · verified purchase