Format:
403 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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20 cm
Edition:
Crown Trade Paperback Edition
ISBN:
9780593136324
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0593136322
Content:
"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." - Amazon.com
Note:
Includes book club guide and excerpt from The spy and the traitor
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Originally published in 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780593136317
Language:
English
Keywords:
Werner, Ruth 1907-2000
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Sowjetunion
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Spionage
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Biography
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Biografie
Author information:
Macintyre, Ben 1963-
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