When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. If you had visited the quaint English village of Great Rollright in 1945, you might have spotted a ...

Ben Macintyre tells the “extraordinary” story of Ursula Kuczynski, the Soviet spy who posed as an Oxfordshire housewife, and food writer Bill Buford provides a “rollicking” account of his time ...

Ben Macintyre’s latest riveting espionage history, Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy, chronicles the astonishing life of Ursula Kuczynski, code-named Sonya. The book is riveting for many ...

Macintyre (The Spy and the Traitor) recounts the life and career of Soviet intelligence officer Ursula Kuczynski (1907–2000) in this fascinating history. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in ...

A NEW book will reveal the secrets of a spy who some say was responsible for the start of the Cold War. Historian Ben Macintyre has recently released ‘Agent Sonya: Mother, Lover, Soldier, Spy’, which ...

Mrs. Len Beurton of Great Rollright, a tiny village in the Cotswolds, was an apparently ordinary housewife and mother of three, famous for her home-baked scones. In reality, she was Agent Sonya, a top ...

IN January 1941, Ursula Kuczynski, a Jewish German refugee, arrived in Oxford with her children on a British passport. To her neighbours and the outside world she was a mother and housewife, but in ...

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