Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941–1945 is a memoir of public interest by former Special Operations Executive (SOE) cryptographer Leo Marks...
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Leo Marks (category 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights)
published a personal history of his experiences during the war, Between Silk and Cyanide, which was critical of the leadership of SOE. Marks was born into...
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Between Silk and Cyanide. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255944-7. Marks relates his briefing of Violette Szabo prior to her first mission, and his...
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MI6 (section Structure and mission)
Pen and Sword Military. pp. 256–57. ISBN 978-1-47386383-5. OCLC 953834421. Retrieved 18 September 2019. Marks, Leo (2007). Between Silk and Cyanide. The...
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York: Random House. p. 178. ISBN 9780812997354. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945. London: Harper Collins. p. 499...
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Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945 about two young Danes who found a derelict de Havilland Hornet Moth biplane, repaired it, and...
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Macmillan. pp. 398 ff. ISBN 978-0-684-83130-5. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: a Codemaker's Story, 1941–1945. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-684-86780-9...
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Intelligence and National Security. 28 (6): 910–912. doi:10.1080/02684527.2012.735077. S2CID 214655538. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York:...
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Cassibile", Military Affairs 12:1 (1948), 12–35. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. London: HarperCollins. chapter 47. ISBN 0-00-255944-7. Robert...
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Diacope (category Vocabulary and usage stubs)
Retrieved December 1, 2023. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster). p. 454. ISBN 0-684-86422-3. v t e...
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Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-731353-2. OCLC 751685307. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941–1945. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-653063-X...
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Eastern Approaches. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-013271-6. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945. Harper Collins. ISBN 0-00-255944-7...
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Norwegian heavy water sabotage (category Battles and operations of World War II involving Norway)
Atomic Bomb, includes details of the events. Leo Marks' 1998 book, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945 (ISBN 0-684-86780-X), also details...
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was captured by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War. Between Silk and Cyanide, a book by cryptographer Leo Marks describing, among other things...
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Maurice Buckmaster (section Early life and career)
December 1940. p. 7192. Foot (1966), p. 179 Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. London: Harper Collins. p. 30, 75, 167-68. ISBN 0 00 255 944 7...
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without loss of security. This enabled rapid and secure encoding of messages. Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, HarperCollins (1998), ISBN 0-00-255944-7...
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Noor Inayat Khan (category Night and Fog program)
(in French). Random House. ISBN 0434010634. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941–1945. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-684-86780-X...
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Marks & Co (redirect from Marks and Co)
chapter 34, pop. 268–278. ISBN 978-1-64129-100-2. Leo Marks (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. London: HarperCollins. pp. chapter 15. ISBN 0-00-255944-7. An...
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Colin Gubbins (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
cryptographer at SOE was Leo Marks, whose book Between Silk and Cyanide (1998) contains a detailed portrait of Gubbins and his work as Marks knew it. At one point...
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Knut Haugland (section Early life and World War II)
(1998) Between Silk and Cyanide; A Codemaker's War 1941–1945. London, HarperCollins and New York, Simon & Schuster Hesselberg, Erik (1994). Kon-Tiki and I...
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France Antelme (section Betrayal, capture and death)
Secrets, Anchor Books, ISBN 978-1-4000-3140-5 Marks, Leo (1998) Between Silk and Cyanide: A codemaker's war, 1941-1945, Touchstone books, ISBN 0-684-86422-3...
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Winterfold House (section Location and estate)
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN – Delhi Information". 30 May 2021. Marks Leo, Between Silk and Cyanide, HarperCollins, London 2000, Chapter 65 "Paul McCue Books". "Surrey...
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Peter Churchill (category Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
National Archives Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker’s War 1941–45 Leo Marks, 1998 The Spirit in the Cage, Peter Churchill, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954...
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Charles Wheatstone (category Telegraph engineers and inventors)
volume 10, no 1, February 2001, pp. 37–40. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-86422-3. Ronalds, B.F. (2016)...
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McDougall and Flora Sandes". Women's History Review. 15 (1): 83–103. doi:10.1080/09612020500440903. S2CID 143789145. Marks, Leo (2000). Between Silk and Cyanide:...
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F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas (section Awards and honours)
White Rabbit (1997) Brigitte Friang, Parachutes and Petticoats (1958) Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945 (1998) Sophie Jackson...
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Bibliography of cryptography (category Cryptography lists and comparisons)
sources and recently available US material. Contains material not previously accessible or unavailable. Marks, Leo, Between Silk and Cyanide: a Codemaker's...
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Gerald Templer (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-25071-3. Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's Story 1941-1945. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-684-86780-X...
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Yvonne Cormeau (section Recruitment and training)
October 2009. Imperial War Museum Interview Marks, Leo (1998), Between Silk and Cyanide, New York: Penguin, p. 590 Profile Archived 7 June 2009 at the...
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cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/notes/AT02_hiding.pdf, lecture notes, 2002. Between Silk and Cyanide – a Codemaker’s War 1941-1945, Leo Marks, HarperCollins 1998. Ross...
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