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I gave up on reading it and went instead to various online sources for the basic story. As storytelling, this book is not bad. The author does a decent job of presenting Virginia Hall's situation and extraordinary character. However, the book is not trustworthy as history. Put it this way: I would definitely recommend against placing this book on a reading list for students. Why? Because what are really very important, fundamental aspects of WWII are wrong here - so wrong as to seem to be made up out of thin air. Two examples: (1) The author writes that the Soviet invasion of Poland "sent the message to Berlin that Nazi aggression into the Baltic and Ukraine must stop immediately" - yet anyone who has had history class in high school might remember that the invasion of Poland was a joint Soviet-German project, coordinated between the two invaders as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. (2) The author writes: "The Germans arrived with powerful tanks, while the French had only machine guns." Where does the author get this? France had tanks, including the formidable Char B1. These errors are pretty egregious in the age of the internet. And these are the errors that anyone with average knowledge of WWII can spot; meanwhile, I am supposed to rely on the author herself for any information about Virginia Hall. Sadly, the book is unworthy of that trust. So, I have put it down and found my reading on Virginia Hall elsewhere. Thus, I have to strongly disagree with the Library Journal's recommendation that this book belongs in a public library.