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A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II (Record no. 59279)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2018060359
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780735225299
Qualifying information hardcover
International Standard Book Number 073522529X
Qualifying information hardcover
International Standard Book Number 9781984877611
Qualifying information international edition
International Standard Book Number 1984877615
Qualifying information international edition
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency LBSOR/DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency GK8
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042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number D810.S8
Item number G597 2019
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.54/8641092
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Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Purnell, Sonia,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 85170
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc [New York, New York] :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2019]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
Other physical details illustrations, map ;
Dimensions 24 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-334) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The dream -- Cometh the hour -- My tart friends -- Good-bye to Dindy -- Twelve minutes, twelve men -- Honeycomb of spies -- Cruel mountain -- Agent most wanted -- Scores to settle -- Madonna of the mountains -- From the skies above -- The CIA years.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly warfare," and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France. Virginia Hall was one of the greatest spies in American history, yet her story remains untold. Just as she did in Clementine, Sonia Purnell uncovers the captivating story of a powerful, influential, yet shockingly overlooked heroine of the Second World War. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Virginia Hall came to be known as the "Madonna of the Resistance," coordinating a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerilla fighters. Even as her face covered WANTED posters throughout Europe, Virginia refused order after order to evacuate. She finally escaped with her life in a grueling hike over the Pyrenees into Spain, her cover blown, and her associates all imprisoned or executed. But, adamant that she had "more lives to save," she dove back in as soon as she could, organizing forces to sabotage enemy lines and back up Allied forces landing on Normandy beaches. Told with Purnell's signature insight and novelistic panache, A Woman of No Importance is the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war"--
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Goillot, Virginia,
Dates associated with a name 1906-1982.
9 (RLIN) 85171
648 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM
Chronological term 1939-1945
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 50729
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women spies
Geographic subdivision United States
Form subdivision Biography.
9 (RLIN) 87532
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Spies
Geographic subdivision United States
Form subdivision Biography.
9 (RLIN) 87533
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intelligence officers
Geographic subdivision United States
Form subdivision Biography.
9 (RLIN) 87534
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World War, 1939-1945
General subdivision Secret service
Geographic subdivision United States.
9 (RLIN) 87535
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World War, 1939-1945
General subdivision Underground movements
Geographic subdivision France.
9 (RLIN) 87536
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
Source of term fast
9 (RLIN) 13266
Genre/form data or focus term Biography.
Source of term fast
9 (RLIN) 87537
Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
Source of term lcgft
9 (RLIN) 13266
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Purnell, Sonia, author.
Title Woman of no importance
Place, publisher, and date of publication [New York, New York] : Viking, [2019]
International Standard Book Number 9780735225305
Record control number (DLC) 2019000604
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type NF
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    Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 04/25/2019 Brodart. 940.54 PUR 34480000567143 NF