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Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II
Sonia Purnell
Illustrator: archival photographs
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Viking/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-35054-6
Keywords: Spies, French Resistance, WWII, Disability
Despite her prosthetic lower leg, Virginia Hall joined Britain's Special Operations Executive, gathering intelligence about the Nazis and working with the French Resistance. Copious archival photographs. Back matter.