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I remember how we used to go to offices and huddle around discussing the one TV show we’d all watched the previous night, like Mad Men. There was no water cooler per se, but apparently not too many years before then all non-work-related office chatter was required by law to take place around one, and so we would still call these water-cooler shows. We’ve lost our offices, and our water-cooler shows too; but reclaimed a water cooler of sorts. It’s called Slack or (particularly outside the...

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 famil...

John's 3 book picks this week.

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 Cot...

Yesterday, in the first part of a spine-tingling new series by top espionage writer BEN MACINTYRE, we revealed how a sex-mad Soviet agent posed as a Cotswolds housewife to run a cabal of Communist spies from her cottage.  Here, we tell how she delighted her masters — and even Stalin himself — with her access to the very heart of Britains top-secret atom bomb research... When housewife and mother Ursula Beurton — in reality, Major Ursula Kuczynski of the Red Army, a Soviet spy who had con...

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Hour Detroit Magazine December 23, 2020 Best Books of 2020: The Margot Affair, A Burning, The Address Book, and Craft Cocktail are among are top picks. In 2020, there were the big political books, like Rage by Bob Woodward; celebrity memoirs, like The Meaning of Mariah Carey; and new installments from big-name writers such as John Grisham, Elin Hilderbrand, and Stephen King. There was even the new Twilight installment, Midnight Sun. (Not that I read it. Cough. Cough.) Tucked in between thes...

Favourites of 2020: Women make excellent spies The UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell. Not pictured: spies (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) Published 22 Dec 2020 12:00   0 Comments   An end-of-year series as the Lowy Institute staff and Interpreter contributors offer their favourite books, articles, films or TV programs this year. Look back on more recommendations and reflecti...

Left: Ursula – codenamed ‘Agent Sonya’. Right: Renate – spent years in Cuba under Castro I DON’T know who I admire the most of two sisters – the one who kept her secrets to herself or the one whose secrets went on to shock the world! Of the two, I only got to know Renate, a seemingly austere woman with a kind smile, whose elegant upper floor flat Tavistock Place, Holborn, I used to visit. I knew Renate Simpson and her husband, Arthur, a leading marine biologist who talked exotically...