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Between Silk and Cyanid - A Codemaker's War 1941 - 1945
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Between Silk and Cyanid - A Codemaker's War 1941 - 1945Between Silk and Cyanid - A Codemaker's War 1941 - 1945

At the age of 8, Leo Marks discovered the great game of code-making and -breaking in his father's London bookshop, thanks to a first edition of Poe's The Gold-Bug. At 23, as World War II was being played out in earnest, he hoped to use his strengths for the Allies. But Marks's urgent, witty memoir, Between Silk and Cyanide, begins with his failure to get into British Intelligence's cryptographic department. As everyone else on his course heads off to Bletchley Park ("the promised land"), he is sent to what his sergeant terms "some potty outfit in Baker Street, an open house for misfits."
 
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