Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy
(Book)
"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."--
In 1942, in a quiet village in the English Cotswolds, Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. Her unassuming life hid the fact that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. Her husband was also a spy, and she was running powerful agents across Europe gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. Macintyre tells the story of "Sonya," a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers. - adapted from jacket
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.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Notes
Macintyre, B. (2020). Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy. First Edition. New York, Crown, an imprint of Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. 2020. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. New York, Crown, an imprint of Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. New York, Crown, an imprint of Random House, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. First Edition. New York, Crown, an imprint of Random House, 2020.
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264 | 1 | |a New York :|b Crown, an imprint of Random House,|c [2020] | |
300 | |a xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|b illustrations, maps, portraits ;|c 25 cm | ||
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Whirl -- Whore of the Orient -- Agent Ramsay -- When Sonya is Dancing -- The Spies Who Loved Her -- Sparrow -- Aboard the Conte Verde -- Our Woman in Manchuria -- Vagabond Life -- From Peking to Poland -- In for a Penny -- The Molehill -- A Marriage of Convenience -- The Baby Snatcher -- The Happy Time -- Barbarossa -- The Road to Hell -- Atomic Spies -- Milicent of MI5 -- Operation Hammer -- Rustle of Spring -- Great Rollright -- A Very Tough Nut -- Ruth Werner -- Afterword: the lives of others. | |
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