Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\nPublished in Paperback on 27 May\n'His best book yet' The Times\n'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday Times\nDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR\nUrsula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now.\nBorn to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the s' power. As a fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, Ursula was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society.\nFrom planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, to preventing nuclear war (or so she believed) by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from Britain to give to Moscow, Ursula conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century.\nIn Agent Sonya, Britain's most acclaimed historian Ben Macintyre delivers an exhilarating tale that's as fast-paced as any fiction. It is the incredible story of one spy's life, a life that would alter the course of history . . .\n'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston\n'Macintyre has found a real-life heroine worthy of his gifts as John le Carré's nonfiction counterpart' New York Times\n'This book is classic Ben Macintyre . . . quirky human details enliven every page' Spectator