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Agent Sonya : lover, mother, soldier, spy / Ben Macintyre.

Agent Sonya : lover, mother, soldier, spy / Ben Macintyre.
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Date Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Reserve
13 Oct 2020 008236384 B/KUCZ
Adult Non Fiction   Nowra . . From Ulladulla to Nowra .  
8 Oct 2020 008235381 B/KUCZ
Adult Non Fiction   Kiama . . On Loan . 15 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9780241408513
Shelf Location B/KUCZ
Author Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Title Agent Sonya : lover, mother, soldier, spy / Ben Macintyre.
Publication Details London : Viking, 2020.
Format xxii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Notes In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedaling towards the shops with her ration book, she was racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific intelligence from one of the country's most brilliant nuclear physicists. Secrets that she would transmit to Soviet intelligence headquarters via the radio transmitter she was hiding in her outdoor privy. Far from a British housewife, Mrs Burton - born Ursula Kuczynski, and codenamed 'Sonya' - was a German Jew, a dedicated communist, a colonel in Russia's Red Army, and a highly-trained spy. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, and helping the Soviet Union build the atom bomb, Sonya conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Her story has never been told - until now. Agent Sonya is the exhilarating account of one woman's life; a life that encompasses the rise and fall of communism itself, and altered the course of history.
Subject Kuczynski, Ursula, -- 1907-2000
Werner, Ruth, -- 1907-2000
Beurton, Ursula, -- 1907-2000
Hamburger, Ursula, -- 1907-2000
Biographies
Spies -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Espionage, Soviet -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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