Bibliograph

Agent Sonya, Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre

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Label

Agent Sonya, Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplatesportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Agent Sonya

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1143626728

Responsibility statement

Ben Macintyre

Sub title

Moscow's most daring wartime spy

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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