The Tale of Virginia Hall

In 1942, the Allies began Operation Torch landing troops across Vichy held North Africa at Algiers, Oran and Casablanca. This would mean certain death for Virginia Hall who had a wooden leg. So in November 1942, she has to leave France urgently. She makes sure that she ties up loose ends as much as she can, but then has to escape over the Pyrenees in some of the worst snowstorms for 200 years. The trek was arduous. Conditions were freezing. The air at the high altitude was thin. Meanwhile, Cuthbert, Hall's wooden leg, the gantarab against her stump, opened a painful wound that bled down her