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A Woman Of No Importance by Sonia Purnell - Summary

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A Woman of No Importance

After training, virginia was sent to southern france to create a secret network of resistance fighters. She set up a plan that involved sending an elderly priest in a wheel chair with a radio beneath his robes into where they were being held. The enemy found the address to a safe house and was able to use it as a mouse trap to capture all agents,. But this didn't stop her. Tis used as a peasant, she organized resistance into units. They did everything from derailing trains and re directing signs to leading convoys into ravines. Before diday, she signalled french resistance troops to help the invasion of normandy.

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