Wimpole History Festival: Sonia Purnell & Francelle Bradford White - Women in the Resistance

Francelle Bradford White (Andrée’s War) joins us to discuss her mother Andrée Griotteray, an underground intelligence courier for the Resistance from the fall of Paris to the Liberation. Sonia Purnell’s tale of panache and derring-do (A Woman of No Importance) is worthy of John Buchan. Virginia Hall, American-turned-British spy, overcame the loss of a leg and became the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied agent. Ordinary women, extraordinary stories. Joined in conversation by writer Clare Mulley whose book The Spy Who Loved tells the story of secret agent Christine Granville.