Oct 29th 2019

A Woman of No Importance: The Spy Who Helped Win WWII

@ Newberry Library

60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610

Opening Tuesday, October 29th, from 6:15PM - 8PM

Use CODE FB2019 for ticket discounts.

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent command: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” This spy was Virginia Hall, a young socialite from Baltimore, who, after being rejected from the Foreign Service because of her gender and prosthetic leg, talked her way into the SOE, the WWII British spy organization dubbed Churchill’s “ministry of ungentlemanly warfare.”

Best-selling author, Sonia Purnell will reveal the captivating story of a formidable, yet shockingly overlooked, heroine whose fierce persistence helped win a world war.

Photo: Virginia Hall’s Estonian Drivers License. The Central Intelligence Agency

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