Between Silk And Cyanide

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Les Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptographer penis. In Between Silk and Cyanide, his critically acclaimed account of his time in SE Marks tells how he revolutionized the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained some of the most famous agents dropped into France including Violette Scabo and The White Robo why he wrote haunting verse including his famous 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
Fatherland ult; and how and why he broke General de Gaulle's secret code. Both thrilling and poignant, Marks's book is truly one of th last great Second World War memoirs