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Tosielämän trillerien mestari kertoo 1900-luvun pelottomimmasta naisvakoojasta. Oxfordin lähettyvillä asui elegantti nainen vuonna 1942. Hän vaikutti tavalliselta perheenäidiltä, mutta oli vannoutunut kommunisti ja korkea-arvoinen neuvostovakooja. Koodinimi Sonjan tehtävä oli varastaa Britannian ydinasesalaisuudet. Agentti Sonja on tosielämän jännityskertomus Ursula Kuczinskistä. Vakoojana hän oli mukana Hitlerin salamurhajuonessa, rakensi pommeja ja vakoili Mantšuriassa. Hänen kannoillaan olivat natsit, kiinalaiset, japanilaiset, FBI ja MI6. Päiväkirjojen, kirjeiden ja arkistolöytöjen avulla MacIntyre luo kuvan vaarallisesta naisesta, joka viritti kylmän sodan sytytyslangan.
Forfatteren av bestselgeren Spion og forræder er tilbake med en ny fascinerende spionthriller fra virkeligheten Denne gangen har Ben Macintyre plassert en kvinnelig agent i sentrum. Fortellingen om Ursula Kuczynski, med kodenavn Sonya, er som en europeisk historie i miniatyr. Som ung jødisk kvinne vokser hun opp i et stadig mer fiendtlig Tyskland. Hun blir overbevist kommunist og lar seg verve som spion for russerne. Under annen verdenskrig lever hun et tilsynelatende anonymt husmorliv i England. Men i hagen bak huset har hun hemmelig radiokontakt med Sovjetunionen, der hun avslører viktig informasjon om utviklingen av atombomben. I en mannsdominert bransje gjør Sonya en spektakulær karriere og blir forfremmet til oberst. Men MI5 er på sporet av mesterspionen, og snart brenner jorden under føttene hennes.
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 ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 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 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--and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers.
Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now. Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' 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. From 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. In 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...
Ingen anade vad Mrs Burton, hemmafru i det idylliska Oxfordshire, ägnade dagarna åt. Hennes riktiga namn var Ursula Kuczynski, men har gått till historien under sitt kodnamn: Sonya. Hon var tysk judinna och tidigt en hängiven kommunist, hon blev sedermera överste i röda armén och en förstklassigt tränad spion. Hennes verksamhet sträckte sig över hela världen. Från Schweiz planerade hon ett mordförsök på Hitler, hon spionerade på japanerna i Manchuriet och hjälpte Sovjetunionen att bygga sitt första kärnvapen. Ensam eller i grupp genomförde agent Sonya några av de farligaste spionaktionerna under 1900-talet. Agent Sonya är en fängslande levnadsteckning över en kvinnas liv, ett liv som följde Sovjetkommunismens uppgång och fall och satte avtryck i historien. Författaren har åstadkommit en i det närmaste osannolik, dokumentär berättelse om en kvinna med många roller: älskarinna, mamma, soldat och spion. Detta är hennes historia. Ben Macintyre är en av Storbritanniens mest erkända historiker och författare till miljonsäljande titlar som En spion bland vänner, SAS och Spion och förrädare.
»Det här är faktiskt den mest spännande boken som går att hitta i bokhandeln just nu … Den är så himla välskriven och spännande … Jag har inte andats sen jag först läste den« Jenny Lindh, TV4 NyhetsmorgonÖverste Oleg Gordievskij var på toppen av sin karriär. 46 år gammal hade han blivit befordrad till drömpositionen på KGB:s Londonkontor och inbjuden till högkvarteret i Moskva för att formellt bli krönt som chef över hela KGB. När han anlände till Moskva vandrade Gordievskij självsäkert genom flygplatsens säkerhetskontroll. Inombords kände han dock en djup oro KGB veteranen Gordievskij, Sovjetunionens trogne hemlige tjänare, var nämligen brittisk spion. Den internationellt bästsäljande författaren Ben Macintyre skriver i Spion och förrädare om det djärvaste kapitlet i spionagets historia. Det är en berättelse om svek, dubbelspel och dristighet som ändrade kalla krigets riktning för alltid. Ben Macintyre är i grunden historiker men arbetar till vardags på The Times. Han har skrivit ett tiotals böcker om spionagets och kalla krigets historia. Röster om boken:»Den bästa sanna spionhistoria jag någonsin läst!« John le Carré »Jag läser stora delar med munnen halvöppen. Aldrig har väl uttrycket sanningen överträffar alltid dikten varit mer träffande Visst, det här är något så ovanligt som en faktabok som känns mer spännande än de flesta thrillers. Ändå är det inte bokens främsta tillgång. Det bästa är att den lär mig saker jag aldrig hade kunnat fantisera ihop på egen hand.« Malin Persson Giolito, författare till Störst av allt »Kort sagt är Spion och förrädare en milstolpe i spionlitteraturen och en stor läsupplevelse.« Lars Gyllenhaal, militärhistoriker »John le Carré och jag är helt överens. Det här är den bästa sanna spionhistoria vi någonsin läst. Under elva år spionerade KGB-agenten Oleg Gordievsky för engelska säkerhetstjänsten MI6. Skildringen av hans liv och gärning är lysande läsning, ibland så spännande att jag nästan får hjärtklappning. Samtidigt är det en enastående historielektion om det kalla kriget och hur nära vi en gång var ett kärnvapenkrig.« Ingalill Mosander, Senioren
Forfatteren av bestselgeren Spion og forræder er tilbake med en ny fascinerende spionthriller fra virkeligheten Denne gangen har Ben Macintyre plassert en kvinnelig agent i sentrum. Fortellingen om Ursula Kuczynski, med kodenavn Sonya, er som en europeisk historie i miniatyr. Som ung jødisk kvinne vokser hun opp i et stadig mer fiendtlig Tyskland. Hun blir overbevist kommunist og lar seg verve som spion for russerne. Under annen verdenskrig lever hun et tilsynelatende anonymt husmorliv i England. Men i hagen bak huset har hun hemmelig radiokontakt med Sovjetunionen, der hun avslører viktig informasjon om utviklingen av atombomben. I en mannsdominert bransje gjør Sonya en spektakulær karriere og blir forfremmet til oberst. Men MI5 er på sporet av mesterspionen, og snart brenner jorden under føttene hennes.
En vanvittig spennende spionthriller fra virkeligheten! Den sovjetiske KGB-spionen Oleg Gordijevskij jobbet i det skjulte for britiske MI6. Som en av den kalde krigens viktigste dobbeltagenter lekket han informasjon som førte til arrestasjonen av de norske spionene Gunvor Galtung Haavik og Arne Treholt. Livet hans er som en spionroman: oppvokst i en KGB-familie var spionasje hans naturlige karrierevalg. Som dyktig KGB-mann på overflaten ble han KGBs fremste mann i London, samtidig som han lekket til britene i det skjulte. Et dobbeltspill varer sjelden evig, og snart brant det under føttene hans. Kunne han klare å hoppe av til Vesten før arrestasjon og en sikker død ventet ham? "Den kalde krigen våkner til nytt liv i denne hybriden av dokumentarbok og spionthriller... Et strålende innblikk i en epoke som virker både kjent og besynderlig, både nostalgisk og skrekkinngytende. "NRK
En frostklar vinterdag i januar 1966 lander en ung russisk diplomat og hans kone i København. Mandens navn er Oleg Gordijevskij, og officielt er han ansat ved den sovjetiske ambassade. Men i virkeligheden er han KGB-officer, toptrænet i spionage mod vesten. Sådan begynder et ekstraordinært kapitel af spionagens historie. Opholdet i Danmark og mødet med vestlig kultur sætter et ideologisk skred i gang i Gordijevskij, som ender med at “hoppe af” til vesten. I mere end et årti viderebringer han hemmeligheder fra hjertet af den sovjetiske efterretningstjeneste til britiske MI6- agenter i København og London. Oplysninger, der bidrager til at afværge atomkrig og ændrer den kolde krigs gang. I Spionen og forræderen fører britiske Ben Macintyre læseren ind i en verden af bedrag og forræderi, hemmelige dokumenter og skjulte signaler. Det er en utrolig, men sandfærdig historie om en enkelt mands store indsats på et kritisk tidspunkt i verdenshistorien.
En vanvittig spennende spionthriller fra virkeligheten! Den sovjetiske KGB-spionen Oleg Gordijevskij jobbet i det skjulte for britiske MI6. Som en av den kalde krigens viktigste dobbeltagenter lekket han informasjon som førte til arrestasjonen av de norske spionene Gunvor Galtung Haavik og Arne Treholt. Livet hans er som en spionroman: oppvokst i en KGB-familie var spionasje hans naturlige karrierevalg. Som dyktig KGB-mann på overflaten ble han KGBs fremste mann i London, samtidig som han lekket til britene i det skjulte. Et dobbeltspill varer sjelden evig, og snart brant det under føttene hans. Kunne han klare å hoppe av til Vesten før arrestasjon og en sikker død ventet ham? "Den kalde krigen våkner til nytt liv i denne hybriden av dokumentarbok og spionthriller... Et strålende innblikk i en epoke som virker både kjent og besynderlig, både nostalgisk og skrekkinngytende. "NRK
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist - Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in NonfictionIf anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre has crafted an electrifying account of an international hero. Like the greatest novels of John le Carr , The Spy and the Traitor brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist - Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in NonfictionIf anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre has crafted an electrifying account of an international hero. Like the greatest novels of John le Carr , The Spy and the Traitor brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible untold story of World War II's greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue--now a limited series on MGM+ "Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean's 11 thrown in for good measure."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - "Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read."--Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year) Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors' conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail________________In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.________________'Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly' Daily Express'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor'Told with deceptive brilliance . . . one the finest books of its kind' Evening StandardSunday Times bestseller, April 2017
’Addictive and deeply moving’ Independent ’Utterly Gripping’ Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph ’Enthralling ... A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places’ Evening Standard D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the ’Double Cross System’, a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong Allied invasion force. Under the direction of an eccentric but brilliant intelligence officer in tartan trousers, working from a smoky lair in St James’s, these spies would weave a web of deception so intricate that it ensnared Hitler’s army and helped to carry thousands of troops across the Channel in safety. These double agents were, variously, brave, treacherous, fickle, greedy and inspired. They were not conventional warriors, but their masterpiece of deceit saved countless lives. Their codenames were Bronx, Brutus, Treasure, Tricycle and Garbo. This is their story.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD ’Engrossing as any thriller’ - Daily Telegraph ’Incredible’ Sunday Telegraph ’Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining’ John le Carre One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and suave, courageous and unpredictable, Chapman was by turns a traitor, a hero, a villain and a man of conscience. But, as his spymasters and many lovers often wondered, who was the real Eddie Chapman? Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create an exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational double agent.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War's most infamous spy, from the "master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin " A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or John le Carr , leavened with a dollop of P. G. Wodehouse."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times Book Review Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him--like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA's head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton--knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot. Philby was a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. Together with Elliott and Angleton he stood on the front lines of the Cold War, holding Communism at bay. But he was secretly betraying them both: He was working for the Russians the entire time. Every word uttered in confidence to Philby made its way to Moscow, sinking almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years and costing hundreds of lives. So how was this cunning double-agent finally exposed? In A Spy Among Friends, Ben Macintyre expertly weaves the heart-pounding tale of how Philby almost got away with it all--and what happened when he was finally unmasked. Based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files and told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, A Spy Among Friends is a fascinating portrait of a Cold War spy and the countrymen who remained willfully blind to his treachery. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Shelf Awareness
