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Between Silk and Cyanide : a Codemaker's War 1941-1945
de MARKS, Leo
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
- Librería
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Lancaster, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Free Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. Bumped spine ends and corners, tiny smudge on front free endpaper; no remainder mark. Price clipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn. A nice copy.; <B>The author's memories of working in the SOE are interspersed with anecdotes (many humorous) of his father's secondhand bookstore, Marks & Co. , 84 Charing Cross Road, London. Leo Marks was the head of communications at the Special Operations Executive, created by Winston Churchill in July 1940 with the mandate to "set Europe ablaze". This book "chronicle's Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations." Highly recommended.</B> .
Sinopsis
Between Silk and Cyanide is a book by former SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, describing his work during the Second World War. The title is derived from an incident related in the book, when he is asked why spies in occupied Europe should have their cryptographic material written on silk (which was in very short supply). Marks said that he replied that it was "between silk and cyanide," meaning that it was a choice between a spy surviving, and having to take a suicide pill.
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- Librería
- Anglophile Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6266
- Título
- Between Silk and Cyanide : a Codemaker's War 1941-1945
- Autor
- MARKS, Leo
- Ilustrador
- B&W Photographs
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
- Editorial
- Free Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- World War II, Espionage, Spies, Cryptography, England, Books On Books
- Catálogos del vendedor
- MEMOIR; BRITISH HISTORY; WWII; Anglophile Nonfiction G-P; Memoir G-O;
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