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A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall WW2s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
Category: Biography | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week * 'Cracking' Telegraph * 'Gripping' Irish Times * 'Brilliant' Evening Standard * 'Excellent' Spectator In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of Virginia Hall (WW2's most dangerous spy) by Sonia Purnell
Category: Biography | Series: Virginia Hall from USA who infiltrated Occupied France
In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France. The Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' The Gestapo's target was Virginia Hall, a ...Show more
A Woman of No Importance - The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
Category: Military
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for Be ...Show more
Clementine Churchill - A Life in Pictures by Sonia Purnell; Harriet Walter (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
Foreword by Harriet Walter. Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures is a fully illustrated and abridged edition of Sonia Purnell's acclaimed biography, First Lady, including over 100 stunning and rarely seen photographs. Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survi ...Show more
ClementineThe Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Category: Biography
A long over-due tribute to the extraordinary woman who was Winston Churchill's closest confident, fiercest critic and shrewdest advisor that captures the intimate dynamic of one of history's most fateful marriages, as seen on The Crown and Darkest Hour--"Engrossing...the first formal biography of a woma ...Show more
First Lady : The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Category: Biography
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill by Sonia Purnell
Category: History
Without Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour and repelled the Nazi menace. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never have become Prime Minister. By his own admission, the Second World War would have been 'impossible without her'. Clementine was Win ...Show more
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition by Sonia Purnell
Category: Politics
A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just 'Boris' - the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combin ...Show more
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power by Sonia Purnell
Category: General Biography
An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures ...Show more
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