“I will get my hands on that American woman and destroy her!”
This was the threat of Klaus Barbie, the local Gestapo chief, known as the “Butcher of Lyon.”
The powers of hell seemed to be gathering all around young Virginia Hall. She was simply out of time.
More so, thousands of young American Rangers would be soon landing on the beaches of Normandy. She and her resistance fighters must help prepare the way or thousands would die.
She and her men had to act immediately to cut railway lines, blow up bridges, change road signs, cut phonelines, all the while knowing that the German secret police, the infamous Gestapo, was closing in on her hiding place…
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