Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
by Leo Marks
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- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
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About This Item
Free Press, 1999. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.
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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- Title
- Between Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
- Author
- Leo Marks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684864223
- ISBN 13
- 9780684864228
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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