History's Secret Heroes: Series 1: Virginia Hall’s Great Escape
History's Heroes
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The Importance of Walking on a Wooden Leg
Sonia Penel is the author of A Woman of No Importance, World War II's Most Dangerous Spy. Hall shot herself in the foot while hunting snipe with a gun left to her by her father. She contracted sepsis and doctors were forced to amputate her leg below the knee. But she pulled through after learning to walk again on a wooden leg.
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