Ben Macintyre: Agent Sonya Live, 13th September

Join us for a special international launch event with bestselling author Ben Macintyre as he introduces readers to Agent Sonya. Macintyre will open up his archive for the first time, sharing exclusive photographs and documents from the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest spies.

About Agent Sonya

In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.

However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she was racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific intelligence from one of the country's most brilliant nuclear physicists. Secrets that she would transmit to Soviet intelligence headquarters via the radio transmitter she was hiding in her outdoor privy.

Far from a British housewife, 'Mrs Burton' - born Ursula Kuczynski, and codenamed 'Sonya' - was a German Jew, a dedicated communist, a colonel in Russia's Red Army, and a highly-trained spy. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, and helping the Soviet Union build the atom bomb, Sonya conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Her story has never been told - until now.

Agent Sonya is the exhilarating account of one woman's life; a life that encompasses the rise and fall of communism itself, and altered the course of history.

Every ticket includes a copy of Agent Sonya posted directly to your door.

This event will be hosted via Zoom webinar. You will be sent your personal link to login ahead of the event date.

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