A Woman Of No Importance The Untold Story Of The American Spy Who Helped Win World War Ii

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Virginia Hall-- rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg-- became the first woman to ...

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The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously ...

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The Lady Is a Spy is the audacious and riveting true story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest spy and unsung ...

Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ...

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The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII. His name wasn’t Chester ...

Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley’s The Women Who Flew for Hitler—a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly ...

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From the author of the runaway bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that ...

Foreword by Harriet Walter. Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures is a fully illustrated and abridged edition of Sonia Purnell’...

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In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of ...

A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born ...

From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills’ ‘wilderness years’ in the 1930s, to Clementine’...

Inspiring, action-packed WWII spy biography! How did a woman of no importance become one of the bravest, most valued--and MOST ...

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings—some long, some short—that taken together forma group portrait of many of the ...

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Danger was the air she breathed. Pain was her companion. Freedom was her heartbeat. In World War II France, she ...

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This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian Prince Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of ...

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New ...

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.” In Bringing Down the Colonel, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in ...

The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern ...

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These twenty-six suspense-filled stories unfold from across Germany, Poland, Great Britain, the United States, and more, providing an inspiring reminder ...

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An on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, in light of its national significance as the state that has ...

A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi ...

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A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate ...

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