A Woman of No Importance

I saw A Call For Spy on television earlier this year. It was an enjoyable account of women spies in France during WWII, including Virginia Hall (with her leg prosthesis after an accident) and Noor Inayat Khan (Indian Muslim wire operator).

A Woman of No Importance is a biography of Virginia Hall (another main character in the film is referenced in passing, Khan gets a somewhat negative paragraph). Many different details underlines that one should not overly rely on historical dramas as literal history.

The book might result in a longer blog entry at a separate blog. Hall already is subject to multiple books. This one? I thought it too long and the characters at times got to be a bit confusing. The final chapters (CIA one might be a bit too thin, perhaps from lack of info) probably do the best job. The author also wrote a screenplay for a pending Hall movie.