Buy this book on-line MARKS, Leo : Between Silk and Cyanide : a Codemaker's War 1941-1945Free Press, New York, 1998 ISBN 0684864223
Bumped spine ends and corners, tiny smudge on front free endpaper; no remainder mark. Price clipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn. A nice copy.; The author's memories of working in the SOE are interspersed with anecdotes (many humorous) of his father's secondhand bookstore, Marks & Co. , 84 Charing Cross Road, London. Leo Marks was the head of communications at the Special Operations Executive, created by Winston Churchill in July 1940 with the mandate to "set Europe ablaze". This book "chronicle's Marks's obsessive quest to improve the security of agents' codes and how this crusade led to his involvement in some of the war's most dramatic and secret operations." Highly recommended., 614 pages, Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. Illustr: B&W Photographs Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MARKS, Leo : Between Silk and Cyanide : a Codemaker's War 1941-1945. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, livres anciens, out-of-print books, libri rari and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |