Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Leo Marks

624 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE)...

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