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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like new
- Seller notes
- “One Owner, One Read, In pristine condition.”
- ISBN-13
- 9780593136300
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Unit Quantity
- 2369 Shadowland Loop
- ISBN
- 9780593136300
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593136306
ISBN-13
9780593136300
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038417135
Product Key Features
Book Title
Agent Sonya : Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Nuclear Warfare, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage, Modern / 20th Century
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-019326
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[Ben] Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths of spy craft." -- The New Yorker "Macintyre is fastidious about tradecraft details. . . . [He] has become the preeminent popular chronicler of British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business." --David Ignatius, The Washington Post "Macintyre writes with novelistic flair." -- Entertainment Weekly "Macintyre is a superb writer, with an eye for the telling detail as fine as any novelist's." -- The Dallas Morning News "Macintyre is one of the most gifted espionage writers around." --Annie Jacobsen, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller." --John Banville, The Guardian (UK) "With Macintyre in charge, you're virtually guaranteed a history book that reads like a spy novel." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A scrupulous and insightful writer--a master historian." --Alan Furst, author of Mission to Paris "Macintyre is a master at leading the reader down some very tortuous paths while ensuring they never lose their bearings." -- Evening Standard (UK) "Macintyre . . . has that enviable gift, the inability to write a dull sentence." -- The Spectator (UK), "[Ben] Macintyre is fastidious about tradecraft details. . . . [He] has become the preeminent popular chronicler of British intelligence history because he understands the essence of the business." --David Ignatius, The Washington Post "Macintyre writes with novelistic flair." -- Entertainment Weekly "Macintyre is a superb writer, with an eye for the telling detail as fine as any novelist's." -- The Dallas Morning News "Macintyre is a master storyteller." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Macintyre is one of the most gifted espionage writers around." --Annie Jacobsen, author of Area 51 and Operation Paperclip "Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller." --John Banville, The Guardian (UK) "Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths of spycraft, and has a keen eye for absurdity." -- The New Yorker "With Macintyre in charge, you're virtually guaranteed a history book that reads like a spy novel." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A scrupulous and insightful writer--a master historian." --Alan Furst, author of Mission to Paris "Macintyre is a master at leading the reader down some very tortuous paths while ensuring they never lose their bearings." -- Evening Standard (UK) "Macintyre . . . has that enviable gift, the inability to write a dull sentence." -- The Spectator (UK)
Dewey Decimal
327.12470092
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "master storyteller" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies. "[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."-- The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Foreign Affairs - Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "master storyteller" ( San Francisco Chronicle ) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War's most intrepid spies. "[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account."-- The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Foreign Affairs * Kirkus Reviews * Library Journal 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.
LC Classification Number
UB271.R9M29 2020
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- d***n (1096)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseSeamless transaction fast shipping great quality and packaging as described. Excellent value
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