Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy

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Label

Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy

Title remainder

Moscow's most daring wartime spy

Statement of responsibility

Ben Macintyre

Creator

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Author

• Macintyre, Ben, 1963-

Subject

• Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century
• Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie
• Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography
• Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
• Biographies
• Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000
• Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
• Cold War

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers."--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 327.12470092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

UB271.R9

LC item number

M29 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography