Between Silk and Cyanide. The Story of SOE’s Code War
( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) MARKS, Leo
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Harper Collins, [1998]
Stock code: 48950
Price: £120.00
8vo., First Edition, with 19 plates on 8 and numerous figures in the text; black cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
With a quantity of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Classic and long-awaited account of SOE cryptography by a legendary wartime expert. Marks wrote the famous poem 'The Life that I have' which he subsequently presented to Violette Szabo as her code key, and discloses here for the first time the story of the code war between SOE and the enemy in Holland. After WWII, Marks went on to become a prize-winning scriptwriter (he wrote Michael Powell's cult classic feature film 'Peeping Tom'). THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.