by Leo Marks
Between Silk and Cyanide was mentioned by a reader on my post about Noor Inayat Khan, since Marks worked with her and talks about her in his book. It’s a memoir of his time as a cryptographer and code-breaker for the SOE during World War II. Marks is an engaging writer, who I suspect could talk grea...
I really enjoyed reading this book. It didn't feel like I was reading a book but that I had sat down with Leo Marks and he was telling me stories about his coding work during WWII. This was a fascinating look into the work that SOE did during the war. You can tell that Marks grew close to those he w...
The author used just the right touch, covering history and humor with equal skill. I greatly enjoyed this look behind the scenes of this very important war effort. The only thing to improve it would be an appendix with what the enemy actually knew, which is probably available in some form now.inspir...
I've read a number of cloak and dagger books and this one didn't quite work for me. At 600 pages it could have used an edit, and the book is told solely through the conversations of the author. Of course no one remembers verbatim a conversation they had 25 years ago, so all is taken with a grain of ...
Codes..secret agent..world war..poem.. What else can you ask for? Everything blend so wonderful, don't ask me how to encode a message though, i still don't get it. The only annoying part is Marks' indulgence in ending almost every chapter w/ cliffhanger, there are so many of them and some of them so...
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