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Malcolm Gaskill: ‘Agent Sonya’, 6 January 2022
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
by Ben Macintyre.
Viking, 377 pp., £25, September 2021,978 0 241 40850 6 Show More
by Ben Macintyre.
Viking, 377 pp., £25, September 2021,
“... what happened. Before she left Britain, she had suggested that an agent be dropped into Germany. Alexander Foote was a Yorkshireman, a former coal merchant, chicken-feed sales manager and RAF deserter, who had run off to fight in the Spanish Civil War after getting a girl pregnant. He enthusiastically accepted the offer of a spying job, knowing only that ... ”