Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45 - Brossura

Marks

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0750948353 ISBN 13: 9780750948357

Casa editrice: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

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 revolutionised the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained some of the most famous agents dropped into France including Violette Szabo and 'the White Rabbit', and why he wrote haunting verse 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's book is truly one of the last great Second World War memoirs.

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L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0750948353
• ISBN 13: 9780750948357
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608