Between Silk and Cyanide. The Story of SOE's Code War. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Between Silk and Cyanide. The Story of SOE's Code War. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER | Rare and modern books | Marks Leo
Rare and modern books
Marks Leo
Harper Collins,
1998
Between Silk and Cyanide. The Story of SOE's Code War. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Between Silk and Cyanide. The Story of SOE's Code War. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER | Rare and modern books | Marks Leo
Rare and modern books
Marks Leo
Harper Collins,
1998
27.60 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1998
- Author
- Marks Leo
- Publishers
- Harper Collins
- Keyword
- military, ww2, espionage, soe, special operations executive, codes, ciphers, cryptography, leo marks, military, espionage, pow, between, silk, cyanide
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., Third Impression, with 19 plates on 8 and numerous figures in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Classic and long-awaited account of SOE cryptography by a legendary wartime expert. Marks wrote the famous poem 'The Life that I have' which he subsequently gave to Violette Szabo as her code key, and discloses here for the first time the story of the code war between SOE and the enemy in Holland. After WWII, Marks went on to become a prize-winning scriptwriter (he wrote Michael Powell's cult classic feature film 'Peeping Tom').
