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Collection:
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Adult Nonfiction |
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Call Number:
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327.124 Macintyre |
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Author:
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Macintyre, Ben |
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Title:
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Agent Sonya |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"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."-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780593136300 |
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(hardcover) |
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(ebook) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780593136317 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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e-ur--- |
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Geographic area code:
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e-uk--- |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Geographic area code:
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e-gx--- |
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Classification number:
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UB271.R9 |
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Item number:
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M29 2020 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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327.12470092 |
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Classification number:
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B |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1963- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Ben Macintyre. |
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Edition statement:
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First edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York, NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Crown |
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Date of publication:
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2020 |
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Projected publication date:
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2009 |
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New York : |
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Crown, |
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[2020] |
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Extent:
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xviii; 377 p.; 24 cm. |
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Other physical details:
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maps; b/w photo. |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Bibliography, etc. note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Formatted contents note:
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Whirl -- Whore of the Orient -- Agent Ramsay -- When Sonya is Dancing -- The Spies Who Loved Her -- Sparrow -- Aboard the Conte Verde -- Our Woman in Manchuria -- Vagabond Life -- From Peking to Poland -- In for a Penny -- The Molehill -- A Marriage of Convenience -- The Baby-Snatcher -- The Happy Time -- Barbarossa -- The Road to Hell -- Atomic Spies -- Milicent of MI5 -- Operation Hammer -- Rustle of Spring -- Great Rollright -- A Very Tough Nut -- Ruth Werner. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated by The Rotary Club of Damariscotta/Newcastle; 11/20/2020 |
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Purchase price:
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$ 28.00 |
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Personal name:
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Werner, Ruth, |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1907-2000. |
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element:
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Soviet Union. |
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Subject:
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Spies |
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Subject:
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Spies |
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Subject:
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Espionage, Soviet |
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Subject:
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Nuclear weapons |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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Form subdivision:
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Biography. |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century. |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Soviet Union |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Great Britain |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Great Britain |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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rf26 2020-05-11 |
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rf26 2020-05-11 |
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rf26 2020-05-11 (TW situational) to SL |
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rf07 2020-05-12 (telework) to Dewey |
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xm06 2020-05-15 (TW situational) |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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51597 |
327.124 Macintyre |
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