Agent Sonya
Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
New York, New York : Random House Large Print, [2020]
Format: Large Print
Edition: First large print edition.
Description: xxi, 582 pages, 16 unnumbered pages (large print) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
"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."--Amazon.com
Subjects:
Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.
Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Large type books.
Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.
Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War.
Women spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Spies -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9780593295106
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LP BIOGRAPHY Werner, Ruth | Wheatley (Shandon) | Large Print Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-537) and index.