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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 abou

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ben Macintyre, Efrén del Valle
Publisher
Crown; Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593136324
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, True Crime, Political Science
Rating
4.5 / 5 (4,987 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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