Biography, Letters & Diaries

‘She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.’ 

So said the Gestapo of Virginia Hall, AKA the Limping Lady: an American heiress who lost her leg in a hunting accident and still went on to become one of the most influential spies of  World War Two. Her’s is a story of determination and ingenuity, from crossing the Pyrenees in the middle of winter with a wooden leg nicknamed Cuthbert, to grinding down her pearly whites in order to fit the disguise of a French milk maid.