Between Silk and Cyanide, Leo Marks
Between Silk and Cyanide, Leo Marks
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Between Silk and Cyanide
A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945

Author: Leo Marks

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 20 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/21/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

About Leo Marks

Leo Marks himself is a legend both as a cryptographer and as a scriptwriter. His most famous work, Peeping Tom, a terrifying thriller about a killer obsessed with photographing the fear on the faces of the beautiful women he is about to murder, is a cult classic of 1960s cinema.

Reviews

Goodreads review by A.L. on November 18, 2013

I added this to my to-read list last year, when a goodreads friend (thanks, Christie!) said it was among the best WWII books she’d read in 2012. Now that I’ve read it, I have to say that it’s among the best I’ve read in 2013. The book begins with Leo Marks going off to war—to codebreakers school. He......more

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