Agent Sonya

Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy

مامور سونیا

جسورترین جاسوس زمان جنگ در مسکو

معرفی و دانلود داستان انگلیسی جنایی واقعی

نویسنده:

      بن ماسینتیر

  Ben Macintyre

درباره داستان انگلیسی مامور سونیا (Agent Sonya) نوشته بن ماسینتیر :

در سال ۱۹۴۲ ، در دهکده ای آرام در کوتسولدز ، یک زن لاغر ظریف و زیبا با سه فرزند و همسرش که به عنوان ماشینکار در آن نزدیکی کار می کردند، در یک کلبه کوچک زندگی میکردند. اورسولا برتون خونگرم اما محجوب بود و با کمی لهجه خارجی انگلیسی صحبت می کرد. همه‌جوره به نظر می رسید که او زندگی ساده و بی‌ادعایی دارد. همسایگانش در روستا شناخت کمی از او داشتند.

آنها نمی دانستند که او یک افسر اطلاعاتی عالی رتبه شوروی است. آنها نمی دانستند که شوهر او نیز جاسوس است، یا اینکه او ماموران قدرتمندی را در سراسر اروپا اداره می کند. در پشت نمای زندگی جذاب خود، برتون کمونیست فداکار و یک سرهنگ باسابقه شوروی بود و اسرار علمی را که به اتحاد جماهیر شوروی امکان ساخت بمب را می داد، جمع‌آوری می کرد.

این داستان جاسوسی واقعی یک شاهکار در مورد زنی است که با نام رمز “سونیا” نامگذاری شده است.او در طول زندگی حرفه ای خود،توسط چینی‌ها ، ژاپنی‌ها ، نازی‌ها ، MI5 ، MI6 و FBI دستگیر شد – و هیچ‌کدام نتوانستند او را محکوم کنند. داستان او منعکس کننده درگیری ایدئولوژیک بزرگ قرن بیستم – بین کمونیسم ، فاشیسم و دموکراسی غربی است – و پرتو جدیدی بر نبردهای جاسوسی و تغییر وفاداری های زمانه ما می‌اندازد.

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توضیحات انگلیسی کتاب Agent Sonya 

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 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 written a 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.

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Agent Sonya Quotes

“One night, as they walked home from a concert, Rudi paused under a streetlamp. “He stood against the light. His thick hair was still unruly in the same surprising way, his dark eyes never lost their melancholy and veiled expression, even when he laughed or was deep in thought.” That was the moment she fell in love. “Can a second, a sentence, the expression in the eyes of a person suddenly change everything previously felt into something new?” she wondered.”

“Every spymaster’s ambition is to infiltrate a spy into the enemy’s intelligence service. The Soviets had successfully done this in MI6, with Kim Philby, and MI5, with Anthony Blunt. Here was Ursula’s opportunity to plant not just one but several of her own agents inside the American intelligence service, on a top secret mission. On Moscow’s instructions, she compiled a list of reliable German communists in Britain who might be prepared to work as spies for the Americans, but also willing to pass every scrap of information on to the Center. The Faust spies would be agents of American intelligence spying on Nazi Germany, but in reality double agents working for Ursula Kuczynski of the Red Army. In”

“April 1929 saw the publication of Daughter of Earth by the radical American writer Agnes Smedley.”

“The snow melted,” wrote Ursula, “and the spring had a fairy tale beauty.” The warmer weather brought a flood of wild daffodils to the hills above the chalet, and no fewer than three spies to the Molehill. Alexander Foote and Len Beurton traveled separately to Switzerland and checked into a Montreux boardinghouse, the Pension Elisabeth, overlooking Bon Port on Lake Geneva. The next day, while the children and Ollo “made their way through a sea of flowers, picking arms full of daffodils,” the three conspirators sat in Ursula’s kitchen and discussed how to murder Hitler. Foote was distinctly alarmed to discover that in the intervening weeks the ambiguous injunction to “keep an eye” on Hitler at the Osteria Bavaria “had”

“blown scheme for assassination, with Len and myself apparently cast for the principal roles.” Beurton was enthusiastic. “What could be easier than to put a time bomb in an attaché case along with our coats and, having had an early lunch, abandon the lot in the hope that the bomb would blow Hitler and his entourage, snugly lunching behind the deal boarding, into eternity?” An alternative method—“assassination in its more traditional character”—would be to shoot Hitler as he passed through the restaurant and hope his inattentive bodyguards were too slow to intervene. The only problem with this second plan was that it was suicidal.

Ursula and Beurton shared the conviction that killing Hitler was not only possible, but a moral imperative. “Neither of us believed in the effectiveness of terrorist attacks on individuals,” she wrote. “But there were some people we considered so dangerous and bestial that we were both prepared to break the rules.” Foote was not nearly so keen. He too wanted Hitler dead. He just didn’t want to die himself. Beurton might be a stranger to fear, but Foote was not.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy

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