July 2026: Women in War

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (2019) by Sonia Purnell

Nonfiction, 352 pages

Rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg, young American Virginia Hall talked her way into Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France.

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Mimi’s Bakehouse in the City Art Centre, Edinburgh