A review by trogdor19
Code Name Badass: The True Story Of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios
5.0
Why aren't all history books written like this?
This was rollicking good fun, like sitting around a fire with a bottle of wine and a friend telling you all the craziest stories from history. Virginia Hall's life keeps getting more and more dangerous and thrilling as you get deeper into the book, and it's truly astounding what she was able to pull off. With no training whatsover, she taught herself all manner of sabotage, explosives, jail breaking for dummies, and went on to lead her own unofficial armies. A civilian woman. Leading armies. In the 1940s. I kept having to read one more chapter, then another, then another until I ran out of wars and pages. Wish this was an entire series of lady spies.
This is nonfiction that reads like the most page-turning of novels. If you like tough women taking out Nazis, this is the book for you!
This was rollicking good fun, like sitting around a fire with a bottle of wine and a friend telling you all the craziest stories from history. Virginia Hall's life keeps getting more and more dangerous and thrilling as you get deeper into the book, and it's truly astounding what she was able to pull off. With no training whatsover, she taught herself all manner of sabotage, explosives, jail breaking for dummies, and went on to lead her own unofficial armies. A civilian woman. Leading armies. In the 1940s. I kept having to read one more chapter, then another, then another until I ran out of wars and pages. Wish this was an entire series of lady spies.
This is nonfiction that reads like the most page-turning of novels. If you like tough women taking out Nazis, this is the book for you!