Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre review – housewife, mother and communist spy

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Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre review – housewife, mother and communist spy
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The captivating story of the secret agent who travelled the world with kids in tow, fooled MI5 and passed atomic secrets to the USSR

Ursula and her first husband Rudi after a picnic in the countryside just before her departure for Moscow. Photograph: Collection of the Hamburger familyn November 1930, the 22-year-old Ursula Hamburger was visited at her Shanghai home by a good-looking man with a strong German accent, and three fingers missing from his left hand. Here was the stuff of spy movies and Ursula was delighted at the sudden drama.

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