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 | 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,...
by Craig Gralley | Sep 3, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Walking with Virginia Hall In discovering and walking Virginia Hall’s trail through the Pyrenees, I imagined Virginia inching her way up steep, snow-covered slopes with her prosthetic left leg, “Cuthbert,” dragging behind her. The Challenges She...
by Craig Gralley | Jul 5, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Virginia stayed in France another two months after her September message warning London she’d been discovered. Changing her name and residence regularly, Hall told London she had one more mission–to help two British agents escape from prison. But the...
by Craig Gralley | May 9, 2018 | Virginia Hall
Working Behind the Lines in Vichy Virginia entered France in the spring of 1941 as an undercover agent for British Intelligence with a mission to provide information on political developments, economic conditions, and the French will to resist the German occupation....
