16 Top history books like Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Cover of Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small …

If you liked the history plot in Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson

1. Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

By: William Stevenson

3.61

Format: 160 pages,

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Similar categories in William Stevenson's Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

2. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By: David E. Hoffman

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more

Similar categories in David E. Hoffman's The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • war
  • nonfiction

3. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

By: Bill Browder

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder o… read more

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4. Fobbit

By: David Abrams

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fobbit \'fa-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids… read more

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Cover of FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History by Steven Lomazow

5. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

6. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • audiobook
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7. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
Cover of Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Dale A. Jenkins

8. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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9. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

10. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

Similar categories in Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

11. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

12. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

By: Bill Browder

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more

Similar categories in Bill Browder's Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies by Gordon Corera

14. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies

By: Gordon Corera

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The full, explosive story for the first time: Putin’s espionage campaign against the West, how i… read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

15. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By: Jonathan Freedland

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a book that is part thrilling adventure, part exploration of some of the darkest secrets of the … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

16. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

Similar categories in Liza Mundy's The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis by Robert Verkaik

17. The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis

By: Robert Verkaik

4.07

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A f… read more

Similar categories in Robert Verkaik's The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert  Hutton

18. Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

By: Robert Hutton

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This is the incredible tale of Operation Fifth Column, a Second World War MI5 operation so secret t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hutton's Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets by Roland Philipps

19. A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets

By: Roland Philipps

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous … read more

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  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) by Mick Herron

20. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • espionage
  • audiobook
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

Cover of Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

21. Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

By: Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who hande… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Thorndike Greenspan's Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs book and Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

  • espionage
  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 Top audiobook books like Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre

Transform Your Habits

Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

Ben Macintyre

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

4.19

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15 Best history books like The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis by Robert Verkaik

Transform Your Habits

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?

Horace Greasley , Ken Scott

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Ben Macintyre

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre

4.51

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