Heidi’s Reviews > A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II > Status Update

Chp 5: After the liberation of France, Baker Street finally acknowledged the true extent of Virginia Hall’s contribution to a very great number of escapes, but most of all Mozak, an internal F-section memorandum (21 Nov. 1944), recorded for posterity, “Many of our men owe their liberty and even their lives to Virginia Hall.” But the world outside never knew.

Chp 2: Wearing her beloved trousers was now out of the question, as Vichy blamed them for the female emancipation that had enthralled Virginia in prewar Paris but which equated to dangerous moral turpitude. (1941-42)