A Woman to Know: Virginia Hall
She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies, and we must find and destroy her. — Gestapo Wanted poster, 1942
(Illustration by Jeff Bass)
The Nazis knew her as "the woman with the limp." The Allies knew her as "the heartbeat of the French Renaissance," a woman from Baltimore who could speak multiple languages, hack enemy communications and hike the snowy…
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