BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945.
by Marks, Leo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83083
- Title
- BETWEEN SILK AND CYANIDE: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945.
- Author
- Marks, Leo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
- Publisher
- The Free Press (Simon and Schuster)
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1998)
- Keywords
- autobiography, world war ii,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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