Agent Sonya / Moscow's most daring wartime spy
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Status
Arcade Free Library - Adult Biography
BIO WERNE
1 available
BIO WERNE
1 available
Dansville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
327.12 MAC
1 available
327.12 MAC
1 available
Geneva Public Library - Second Floor Nonfiction
327.12 MAC
1 available
327.12 MAC
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Arcade Free Library - Adult Biography | BIO WERNE | Available |
Dansville Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 327.12 MAC | Available |
Geneva Public Library - Second Floor Nonfiction | 327.12 MAC | Available |
Honeoye Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 327.12 | Available |
Naples Library - Adult Nonfiction | 327.1247 MAC | Available |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Cold War.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatel£noe upravlenie.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe razvedyvatel£noe upravlenie.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Macintyre, B. (2020). Agent Sonya: Moscow's most daring wartime spy (First edition.). Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. 2020. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy. Crown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben, 1963-. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy Crown, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Macintyre, Ben. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy First edition., Crown, 2020.
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