![]() Talk about the good-old-boy office politics underlying some of the decisions to place under trained personnel in the field, and some of the fatalities those decisions led to.ĥ. ![]() ![]() Purnell observers, "Dispatching a one-legged thirty-five-year-old desk clerk on a blind mission into France was, on paper, an almost insane gamble." Almost insane? What was their thinking?Ĥ. What drives people, both men and women, to take such dire risks and to play the high-stakes game of cat and mouse?ģ. Consider the danger involved involved in undercover operations-a field in which its participants are at high risk for capture, torture, and death. Sonia Purcell describes Virginia Hall's resistance work during World War II as "a Homeric tale of adventure, action and seemingly unfathomable courage." How would you describe Hall? What was it about her personality and inner character that attracted her to spy-craft-and what made her so adept at its practice?Ģ. ![]() We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE … and then take off on your own:ġ. ![]()
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