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Author Macintyre, Ben, 1963- author.

Title Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy / Ben Macintyre.

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2020]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  327.1247 MACINTYRE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  327.1247 MACINTYRE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  327.1247 MAC    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  327.1247 MACINTYRE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  327.1247 MACINTYRE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY WERNER    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  327.1247 MACINTYRE, BEN    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  327.12 MACINTYRE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B WERNER RUTH    DUE 04-16-24
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO WERNER    Check Shelf

Edition First Edition.
Description xviii, 377 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-354) and index.
Contents 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.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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
Subject Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.
Cold War.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
TRUE CRIME / Espionage.
Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000. (OCoLC)fst01759700
Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie. (OCoLC)fst00585125
Espionage, Soviet. (OCoLC)fst00915419
Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
Spies. (OCoLC)fst01129772
Women spies. (OCoLC)fst01178571
Germany (East) (OCoLC)fst01210274
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Macintyre, Ben, Agent Sonya First edition. New York : Crown, [2020] 9780593136317 (DLC) 2020019327
ISBN 9780593136300 (hardcover)
0593136306 (hardcover)
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