Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy /

Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author.
Edition:	First Edition.
Imprint:	New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2020]
Description:	xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000. Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000. Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie. Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie. Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography. Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century. Cold War. Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography. Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography. Espionage, Soviet. Nuclear weapons. Spies. Women spies. Germany (East) Great Britain. Soviet Union. Biography. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12415767

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ISBN:	9780593136300 0593136306 9780593136317
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.
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."-- 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
Other form:	Online version: Macintyre, Ben, Agent Sonya First edition. New York : Crown, [2020] 9780593136317

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Summary:	NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "master storyteller" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies.<br> <br> "[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."-- The Washington Post <br> <br> NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Foreign Affairs * Kirkus Reviews * Library Journal <br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.
Physical Description:	xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index.
ISBN:	9780593136300 0593136306 9780593136317