Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

Thursday July 9 2026 11:15AM
Dyer-Schererville

Event Description

The Real Reads book discussion group will read Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell. Books for this discussion can be picked up at the Dyer-Schererville branch a month prior to the event.

Summary: "Virginia Hall-- rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg-- became the first woman to deploy to occupied France, before the United States had even entered the war. At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Hall coordinated a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerrilla fighters. The Gestapo considered her the most dangerous of all Allied spies. Purness tells the breathtaking story of how one woman's fierce persistence helped win the war. "

When

11:15AM - 12:30PM
Thursday July 9 2026
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219-322-4731

Where

Meeting Room AB
Dyer-Schererville
1001 W. Lincoln Hwy
Schererville IN
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