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Sep 17, 2020 · Ben Macintyre writes the best spy biographies! This particular spy, Ursula Burton (alias Sonya) started out in Germany resisting the fascists and ended up being a spy for the Soviet Union in many parts of the world. She was definitely dedicated to her beliefs, sometimes even giving up her children for lengthy periods of time.
For the charming “Mrs Burton” was actually Colonel Ursula Kuczynski of the Red Army, a decorated Soviet military intelligence officer who had led covert espionage operations in China, Poland ...
Sep 18, 2020 · September 18, 2020 7:00 am. By the time she reached the safety of East Berlin in 1950, the Soviet spy known to the residents of the Cotswolds village of Great Rollright as Mrs Burton had fully ...
Mar 5, 2021 · Klaus was Burton's best agent, and together they were gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. Ben Macintyre's latest true-life spy story is a ...
Sep 15, 2020 · 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 ...
They did not know that the woman they called “Mrs Burton” was really Colonel Ursula Kuczynski of the Red Army, a dedicated communist, a decorated Soviet military intelligence officer and a ...
The incredible story of the greatest female spy in history b. In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, 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.
