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Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
Record details
- ISBN: 0593136306 :
- ISBN: 9780593136300 :
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Physical Description:
xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Etna Library | 327.12 MAC | 31257000284223 | Adult collection | Available | - |
| Howe Library | 327.12 MAC | 31254003675093 | Lower level | Checked out | 04/26/2024 |
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."--