The Resource Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre
Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre
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The item Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
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- "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."--
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780593136300
- Label
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Title
- Agent Sonya
- Title remainder
- Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Statement of responsibility
- Ben Macintyre
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biography
- Cold War
- Espionage, Soviet
- Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Germany (East)
- Great Britain
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- History
- Nuclear weapons
- Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Soviet Union
- 1900-1999
- Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie
- Spies
- Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography
- Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- TRUE CRIME / Espionage
- Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000
- Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000
- Women spies
- Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
- 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
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Macintyre, Ben
- Dewey number
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- 327.12470092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Werner, Ruth
- Spies
- Spies
- Espionage, Soviet
- Nuclear weapons
- Soviet Union
- Cold War
- Women spies
- Spies
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- TRUE CRIME / Espionage
- Werner, Ruth
- Soviet Union
- Espionage, Soviet
- Nuclear weapons
- Spies
- Women spies
- Germany (East)
- Great Britain
- Soviet Union
- Label
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre
- Bibliography note
- 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
- Control code
- on1143626728
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780593136300
- Lccn
- 2020019326
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143626728
- Label
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy, Ben Macintyre
- Bibliography note
- 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
- Control code
- on1143626728
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780593136300
- Lccn
- 2020019326
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143626728
Subject
- Biographies
- Biography
- Cold War
- Espionage, Soviet
- Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Germany (East)
- Great Britain
- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
- History
- Nuclear weapons
- Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Soviet Union
- 1900-1999
- Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie
- Spies
- Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography
- Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- TRUE CRIME / Espionage
- Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000
- Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000
- Women spies
- Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Soviet Union, Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie
- Biographies
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