Agent Sonya : the spy next door

Biografie

Zusammenfassung: "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.)
Zusammenfassung: 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780593136324 ; 0593136322
• Dimensions: 21 cm
• Extent: 403 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Werner, Ruth ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Spionage

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York
• (who): Crown
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Macintyre, Ben

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1282568841/04
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• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:16 PM CET