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Imprint:
UK : Viking, 2020.
Collation:
xxii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1942, 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 '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.
ISBN:
9780241408506 (hbk)
Dewey Class:
327.1247041
327.124704 WER
327.124
327.124704
B/BUR
B.BUR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2984024
Bookmark Link:
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