Order Reprints Print Article Courtesy of Lioncrest (Can't Hurt Me); Courtesy of Penguin Random House)The Third Pillar; A Woman of No Importance; Rise and Kill First); Courtesy of Simon & Schuster (White Ivy) Text size President and CEO, Franklin Templeton A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell “This is a remarkable story of an American woman who served as a secret undercover agent in France during World War II—first as a spy for the British Intelligence agency SOE, because the U.S. state department refused to let her join, and then later for the U.S. She had unbelievable success in mobilizing the French resistance—fortunately, unconscious bias worked in her favor, as the Germans could not imagine that a woman with a disability could be so effective at undercover work—including bold prison breaks! Despite her success, the SOE refused to promote her, until finally it became abundantly clear that she was far more effective than her