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Agent Sonya
- Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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The incredible story of 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. Her husband was also a Soviet agent, and her children had three different fathers from lovers she'd encountered throughout her incredible career.
In Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre reveals the astonishing story behind the most important woman spy in history and the huge emotional cost that came with being a mother, a wife and a secret agent at once.
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-09-21
Fantastic Read
This book has been on my TBR list for a while, the wait was definitely worth it
Highly recommend
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- theonlysew
- 25-05-21
Female spy!
I listened to an interview the author had done and was intrigued that all things in the book were true and verifiable. What a brilliant story/memoir/telling of events. Thoroughly enjoyed and recommend.
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- "mhca"
- 02-10-21
Great Spy Story I’d read/ listen again
I really enjoyed this book well written and read perfectly….what an eye opener on its era
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- Jude Uk
- 30-10-21
Incredible
I’m working my way through Ben MacIntyre books & nearly missed this one. Very pleased I didn’t. It’s one of the most amazing.
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- Morris
- 03-04-21
Better than fiction
This is a brilliant book about an incredible woman who lived a quite unbelievable life. As they say, you couldn't make this stuff up. Whatever you think of her politics, Ursula Kuczynski led the most extraordinary life during some of the most turbulent years of the twentieth century. Ben Macintyre's prose is lucid and succinct, and his narration is clear and moving. I had to laugh at some of his more deadpan comments.
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- Mario from Oxford, UK
- 08-11-21
An unbelievable true story
The true story of a very lucky Russian spy. Agent Sonya is a truly remarkable lady.
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- S. Simpson
- 16-10-20
Convincingly authentic and great read
Accurately gets under the skin of a real anti-fascist intelligence drama, danger, commitment and family over 20 years.
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- Jonathan Cunningham
- 30-09-20
Interesting story
An interesting story and will be liked by all spy fans, however not his best.
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- merlin d magician
- 19-02-21
incredible........ what an amazing tale!
this is an amazing journey into the life and world of agent Sonya aka Ursula Burton...... for the first time I have been able to understand how the cold war espionage war began out of the ashes of ww2s intense spy games.........well written, and well narrated by the author......enjoy able and fascinating up till the very end.....
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- CJB565
- 06-02-21
Highly recommended
Excellent book well read by the author - it provides a rich insight into geopolitics in the 1930s and 1940s as well an introduction to the Cold War
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