
The Limping Lady | WW2 | Spy Sisters
True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
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Cuthbert, Virginia's Life Story
Virginia Hall was forced to flee France over the Pyrenees Mountains into neutral Spain. She had lost her left leg in a hunting accident while on holiday in Turkey. An obscure law prevented amputees from becoming fully fledged diplomats. When war broke out, she decided to contact London and have Cuthbert eliminated.
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