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100 1  Macintyre, Ben,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Agent Sonya :|bMoscow's most daring wartime spy /|cBen 
       Macintyre. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2020] 
300    xviii, 377 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-354) and 
       index. 
520    "The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the 
       Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most 
       important female spy in history: an agent code-named 
       "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. 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."--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Werner, Ruth,|d1907-2000. 
610 10 Soviet Union.|bGlavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie. 
650  0 Spies|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Spies|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 
650  0 Espionage, Soviet|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Nuclear weapons|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Cold War. 
650  0 Women spies|zSoviet Union|vBiography. 
650  0 Spies|zGermany (East)|vBiography.