Book Overview

Every once in a while, I hear a story so intriguing that I think, “Why haven’t they made this into a movie yet?” The story of Virginia Hall in her biography A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II , was exactly that kind of story. 

Haven’t heard of her? I hadn’t either. But believe it or not, she was one of the most important spies in American history. So how has her story been unknown all this time? This quote from Hall herself might give you something of an explanation: 

“Many of my friends were killed for talking too much.”