![]() As a bilingual member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, she was recruited for the British clandestine service, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). After the fall of France, her family escaped to London. She was a pacifist, a writer of children’s books, and a descendent of an 18th century Muslim ruler. Little did he know she was just one of many women operating in the shadows to destroy the Nazis-women whose stories would be unbelievable if they weren’t true.īorn in 1914 in Moscow to an American mother and an Indian father, Noor grew up across the globe, but mostly in France. How surprised Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, “The Butcher of Lyon,” was to discover one of the most troublesome resistors in his region was not only a woman, but a woman with a prosthetic leg.īarbie christened Virginia Hall “ La Dame qui Boite (The Lady who Limps), Most Dangerous of Allied Spies” and put her face on wanted posters. ![]() German propaganda at the time depicted a feminine ideal of woman as mother, preferably of four or more children, tending home quietly and with docility. Because of this, women were often overlooked in the hunt for resistors and spies. Nazis largely didn’t think women were as brave, intelligent, and even devious and vengeful as men. ![]() While researching my latest novel, The Invisible Woman, about Allied spy Virginia Hall, I made a surprising discovery. Maurice Buckmaster, They Fought Alone: The Story of British Agents in France
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