by Craig Gralley | Oct 22, 2019 | Virginia Hall
Virginia Hall had no choice. Fresh from defeat in north Africa, retreating Nazis were flooding into occupied France. French secret agents tipped-off Allied spy, Virginia Hall, that the Gestapo was coming for her. The ports were sealed. There was only one way to escape...
by Craig Gralley | Jan 27, 2019 | Virginia Hall
“We should not be wiped out!” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor was, “The greatest day of the most horrible war.” The war had been going poorly for the Brits. Now the US would...
by Craig Gralley | Jan 26, 2019 | Press Release
Download PDFBALTIMORE—In the 75th year of the Allies’ D-Day invasion, comes Craig Gralley’s new historical novel, “Hall of Mirrors,” the true story of America’s greatest spy of the Second World War-a woman with a prosthetic leg from...
by Craig Gralley | Sep 24, 2018 | Virginia Hall
An Honor with a Mixed Message Virginia deserved being awarded “Member of the British Empire,” (MBE) in July 1943. She had just escaped from France and her espionage saved countless lives. But the public spotlight of the MBE could blow her cover and end of...
by Craig Gralley | Sep 12, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia Hall in Prison Virginia Hall narrowly escaped the Gestapo by climbing over the snow-capped Pyrenees but was thrown into prison for illegally crossing the border. Days Turn into Weeks Figueres Prison held a strange assortment of inmates: thieves, murders,...