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Between Silk and Cyanide

A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

by Leo Marks

ISBN: 0684864223
ISBN-13: 9780684864228
Format: Hardcover

Summary

In this behind-the-scenes look at Britain's top-secret Special Operations Executive, one of its major cryptographers tells of the monumental effort to make and break codes and shares stories of heroic operatives who worked behind enemy lines. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.

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"[BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE] is an enthralling book, one full of an eccentric charm as well as fascinating, previously undisclosed details of the secret war waged in the occupied countries. It is also consistently informed by an understated kind of moral passion, and that makes it not only a fascinating memoir but an inspiring one as well."    -- Richard Bernstein

   -- New York Times

"Marks is a natural storyteller who brilliantly links the highly technical issue of codes and ciphers to the fates of individuals."    -- David Stafford

   -- New York Times Book Review

"The six hundred pages of BETWEEN SILK & CYANIDE, with the brief, intense era of secret heroism they document, pass rapidly, bouyantly, enthrallingly away. It is hard to come to their end without regrets."    -- Penelope Mesic

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1999
Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 2 pounds
Pages: 613

Publisher's Notes

As thrilling as a novel by John le Carr�, this World War II memoir by ingenious cryptographer Leo Marks brings alive the codemakers and the agents they trained and communicated with in occupied Europe.

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