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Comentado en México el 7 de marzo de 2025
A really interesting and so much fun to read
Nikolaos Katsimitros
Comentado en Alemania el 25 de septiembre de 2024
A true and exciting spy story told by the master of its kind, Ben MacIntyre.
Philippe M.
Comentado en Francia el 3 de junio de 2023
Sonya a été formée en partie par Sorge, et a échappé aussi aux purges stalinienne,c'est toute l'histoire de la guerre froide!
Barbara
Comentado en Canadá el 9 de noviembre de 2023
MacIntyre never disappoints & Agent Sonya is another one of his well researched biographies. Written like a spy novel, it's hard to believe how a relatively innocuous wife & mother was one of the most effective Communist Spies who did so much damage to the West's military security from her activities in China, Switzerland and the UK. A real eye opener & a very enjoyable read.
user
Comentado en México el 3 de noviembre de 2023
Una historia de verdad increíble.
Tim H
Comentado en Italia el 3 de enero de 2021
I downloaded the book in a hurry as I was short of time but relied on my taste for biography.and initially thought I had made a mistake. I thought I was going to be bored with a rather tiresome account of someone of little historical importance. How wrong could I be. It was not long before I was gripped by a deeply interesting biography of someone who's views were very different from my own. The book allows one to consider the person in some depth and what motivated her to keep faith with her beliefs even by exposing her nearest and dearest to danger. Having finished the book I still do not fully understand her. The book is extremely well written and researched and my next read will have to be pretty good to match this one.
John D. Cofield
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 28 de septiembre de 2020
When I see Ben Macintyre's name on a new book I buy it and start reading it right away, certain in the knowledge that I will be enjoying a well written, well researched, fascinating chronicle of modern espionage. Agent Sonya is a worthy successor to such brilliant Macintyre works as The Spy and the Traitor and A Spy Among Friends, with a critical difference: the major protagonist is female.Ursula Kuczynski was a member of a prominent and wealthy German Jewish family active in Berlin's intellectual and artistic circles. In her childhood she lived through Germany's defeat in World War I, and as a teenager she witnessed the mounting tensions and rising anti-Semitism that led to the fall of the Weimar Republic and its replacement with Hitler's Third Reich. Like many in her generation Ursula became a Communist, not so much for ideological reasons as because she saw the Soviet Union as the strongest enemy of Fascism. Helped by her family's left-wing connections, Ursula journeyed to the Soviet Union, was recruited as a spy by Stalin's many-tentacled intelligence services, and spent years in Shanghai, Mukden, Moscow, Switzerland, and eventually rural England on various espionage assignments using the code name Sonya. Along the way she had a passionate affair with another Soviet spy, Richard Sorge, married or lived with three different men by whom she had three children, and jumped from one hair raising adventure to another. Her sex was an asset, since the Soviet and other intelligence services with whom she dealt were all highly male chauvinistic, and she was able to fly under the radar for many years, seeming to be nothing more than a nice normal wife and mother. Her most important contribution to the Soviet espionage effort was her connection with the physicist Klaus Fuchs, who passed an enormous amount of information on British and American efforts to build an atomic bomb through her to the Kremlin. Eventually, after Fuchs was exposed and arrested, Ursula and her family escaped to East Germany, where she lived for most of the rest of her life.Ursula's story seems too incredible even for the pages of a Fleming or Deighton spy thriller, but it all really happened, making Macintyre's extensively documented tale just as riveting as any James Bond adventure. If after reading Agent Sonya you are hungry for more such tales, I can recommend any of Macintyre's books, most especially A Spy Among Friends, which is about Kim Philby, another Soviet spy with whom Ursula had an indirect connection.
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