Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war 1941-45
Marks, Leo200710UU
Book
In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 charing cross road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptographer of genius. In "Between silk and cyanide", his critically acclaimed account of his time in SOE, Marks tells how he revolutionized the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained some of the most famous agents, who dropped into France including Violette Szabo and 'the White Rabbit', and why he wrote haunting verses including his "The Life that I have" poem. He reveals for the first time the disastrous dimensions of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland; how the Germans were fooled into thinking a Secret Army was operating in the Fatherland itself; and how and why he broke General de Gaulle's secret code. Both thrilling and Poignant, Marks' book is truly one of the last great Second World War memoirs.
Main title:
Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war 1941-45 / Leo Marks.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud : Sutton Publishing, 2007.
Collation:
625 p. : ill., black and white ; 20x12 cm.
Notes:
Paperback.
Biography/History:
Leo Marks himself is a legend both as a cryptographer and as a scriptwriter. His most famous work, Peeping Tom, a terrifying thriller about a killer obsessed with photographing the fear on the faces of the beautiful women he is about to murder, is a cult classic of 1960s cinema. He was also the voice of Satan in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
ISBN:
9780750948357 (pbk)0750948353 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5486
Local class:
940.548641
Language:
English
Subject:
Marks, LeoGreat Britain -- HistoryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, BritishCryptographers -- Great Britain -- BiographyCryptographers -- England -- BiographyWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great BritainTrue war & combat stories -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- EuropeEuropean history -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- EuropeSecond World War -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- EuropeMilitary intelligence -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- EuropeWar & defence operations -- Second World War, 1939-1945 -- EuropeBiography
BRN:
2417102