Agent Sonya: The Spy Next Door by Macintyre, Ben [Paperback]

Description: 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."[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."-The Washington Post ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Foreign Affairs, Kirkus Reviews, Library JournalIn 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.

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EAN: 9780593136324

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ISBN: 9780593136324

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Book Title: Agent Sonya : the Spy Next Door

Number of Pages: 432 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2021

Topic: Military / Nuclear Warfare, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Espionage, Intelligence & Espionage, Modern / 20th Century

Item Height: 1 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, True Crime, History

Item Weight: 11.6 Oz

Author: Ben Macintyre

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback