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Agent Sonya

Agent Sonya

Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

by Ben MacIntyre
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/09/2020

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The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians.

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.

However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb.

Far from an obedient homemaker, Sonya Burton was a dedicated communist, a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race.

In Mrs Burton, Ben Macintyre reveals the astonishing story behind the most important female spy in history.

ISBN:
9780241408513
9780241408513
Category:
Espionage & secret services
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-09-2020
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x29mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Ben MacIntyre

Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Sonya, SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends.

He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He regularly presents BBC series based on his acclaimed books.

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