Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
by Ben Macintyre
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Collectible Signed/New
- ISBN 10
- 0593136306
- ISBN 13
- 9780593136300
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Crown Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Collectible Signed/New. ***Signed by Author*** A clean crisp well preserved 2020 Crown Publishing hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Author's signature on a special tipped-in endpaper bound by the publisher. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Foreign Affairs - Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal 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.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1042
- Title
- Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
- Author
- Ben Macintyre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible Signed
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- ISBN 10
- 0593136306
- ISBN 13
- 9780593136300
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- World War II, Espionage, Spies,
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