Agent Sonya : the spy next door / Ben Macintyre.
Agent Sonya : the spy next door / Ben Macintyre.
By
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Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Publication Date
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2020-2021
Publication Information
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[S.I.] : Signal, McClelland & Stewart,
Physical Description
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xviii, 397 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps.
Subject Term
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Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Intelligence service -- Soviet Union -- History.
Cold War -- Biography.
Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain.
Nuclear weapons -- History.
Cold War.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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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.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780771001963
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | ADULT NFIC - BASEMENT | Adult Non-Fiction - Basement | 327.1247 M18 | Checked In |