Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy
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New York : Crown, [2020].
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xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"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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LC Subjects
Cold War.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatelʣnoe upravlenie.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatelʣnoe upravlenie.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Book
Edition:
First edition.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593136300
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Macintyre, B. (2020). Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy. First edition. New York, Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. 2020. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. New York, Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. New York, Crown, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Macintyre, Ben. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. First edition. New York, Crown, 2020.
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