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La enigmática agente Sonya: de día ama de casa, de noche una temible espía soviética gda.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gda.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ursula Kuczynski, alias Ruth Werner, alias Agent Sonya, was a Red Army officer and an expert in radio communication, a saboteur, a first-rate spy and a successful writer. She achieved all of these things while raising a family, which was both a perfect alibi and a fateful trap. If her story is not well-known, it is because until now it has not been written about. Historian Ben Macintyre, the author of several books on the shadowy world of espionage and who has recently published the Spanish-language edition of his 2020 book Agent Sonya: Moscowâs Most Daring Wartime Spy, explains over the phone from the UK: âToday people talk a lot about how to balance work and family life, but in Ursula Kuczynskiâs case it took place on a completely different level. Her work was lethal. If she failed, she would die and her family as well. She had a remarkable capacity for compartmentalizing, something that all great spies are able to do, but she admitted that if it had come ....
Ursula Kuczynski: esposa, madre y la mejor espía de todos los tiempos elpais.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elpais.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ursula Kuczynski, aka Agent Sonya. | Images from the collection of the Hamburger family. / via Penguin Publishers Ben MacIntyre, a British writer for The London Times, is known to spy thriller fans as the author of meticulously researched biographies of famous 20th-century spies. The latest in his series is a comprehensive biography of Jewish German-born Ursula Kuczynski, later also known as Ursula Hamburger, Ursula Beurton, and Ruth Werner. Born in 1907, Ursula came from a distinguished family of academics. By her teenage years especially after being beaten by a policeman’s truncheon in a demonstration she was already a convinced Marxist and youth leader, a position strengthened in commitment during the Weimar Republic years that led up to Hitler’s Third Reich. ....
In the final part of our spine-tingling new series by top espionage writer Ben Macintyre, we reveal how the net of the security services began to close around Soviet superspy Agent Sonya. However, thanks to the efforts of a comically inept MI5 surveillance chief, she was able to evade detention and prepared to flee back to the East . . . Resolute: Ursula Kuczynski aka Agent Sonya lived till she was 93 The picturesque hamlet of Great Rollright in the heart of the north Oxfordshire Cotswolds was remote and exceedingly quiet when Ursula Beurton moved there with her three children in 1945, just after the end of World War II. ....