Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A very good, near fine copy in black cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a very good dust jacket. DJ has slight curl to upper edge but otherwise fine. Leo Marks. 613 p., 8 pages of plates, ill., ports.

Between silk and Cyanide

Marks, Leo

Biographies & Memoirs

Free Press

A true story of code breakers during the second world war. Silk refers to the material used for recording key information and cyanide refers to the suicide pills that agents carried with them.

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

Touchstone/Simon & Schuster

This poignant, haunting poem, originally written for the author's fiancee who died in a plane crash in 1943, was given to the SOE agent Violette Szabo as her code poem, before she was dropped into Occupied France in 1944. It afterwards became famous through the film of her life, 'Carve Her Name With Pride', starring Virginia McKenna, and has been a source of inspiration ever since to those who have lost a loved one or are themselves facing death. Now one of the best loved poems in the English language, 'The Life That I Have' is here presented as a special illustrated gift book, with pencil drawings by the artist Elena Gaussen Marks, the author's wife, who has used many scenes associated with his life to convey the symbolism of the words, Her pencil sketch of Violette Szabo, based on a photograph, is also included.

The Life That I Have

Literature & Fiction

Marks

Marks, Elena Gaussen

Poetry

Souvenir

A sophisticated Freudian conundrum, it says as much about the psychology of movie making as anything else. The finished film was severely cut by the censors, so here for the first time we get a clear idea of Powell's and Marks' intentions.

Peeping Tom (Faber Classic Screenplay Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Faber&Faber

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

A brilliant World War II cryptographer chronicles his career in the Special Operations Executive, discussing his replacement of outmoded codes with one-time silk-printed codes and showing how he broke de Gaulle's secret code, helped organize secret D-Day armies, and much more. 25,000 first printing.

Historical

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), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe, including "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and his wry wit, resulting in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.

Arts & Literature

'Between Silk and Cyanide' presents the memoir of the man who transformed code-making and code-breaking for the Special Operations Executive in World War Two. Leo Marks later went on to become an award-winning scriptwriter.

Between Silk and Cyanide

Sutton Publishing+ltd

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Between silk and Cyanide

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

The Life That I Have

Peeping Tom (Faber Classic Screenplay Series)

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

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

Between Silk and Cyanide