Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war 1941-45 /: a codemaker's war 1941-45. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Leo Marks.
• Authors: Marks, Leo
• Contents: Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; One A Hard Man to Place; Two The Pilot Light; Three A Collector's Item; Four 'Merde Alors!'; Five All Things Bright and Beautiful; Six The Fifth Grouse; Seven SOE-minded; Eight The Plumber and His Mate; Nine The Godfather; Ten The Sixth Sense; Eleven The High-pitched Bleep; Twelve A Shock Discovery; Thirteen The Biter Bitten; Fourteen The Last-chance Month; Fifteen The Bolt-hole; Sixteen A Question of Y; Seventeen Arquebus, Gunnerside and Golf; Eighteen The Coding Cabaret; Nineteen Summit Meeting; Twenty The Findings of the Court; Twenty-one Repercussions. Twenty-two The Launching of Plan GiskesTwenty-three special Devices; Twenty-four Judgement Day; Twenty-five Permission to Proceed; Twenty-six Court Martial; Twenty-seven Criminal Negligence; Twenty-eight Green Ink; Twenty-nine Best Read at Night; Thirty The War Dance; Thirty-one Accidents will Happen; Thirty-two Pilgrim's Progress; Thirty-three The 'Hard Men'; Thirty-four Judicial Review; Thirty-five The Masterstroke; Thirty-six Desperate Measures; Thirty-seven Punitive Expedition; Thirty-eight The Secret Weapon; Thirty-nine Appointment with Royalty; Forty The Extended Briefing. Forty-one Operation Gift-horseForty-two A Terrible Gaffe; Forty-three Operation Sidetrack; Forty-four Beyond Belief; Forty-five Parallel Action; Forty-six The Club Rules; Forty-seven Lake Como's Bottom; Forty-eight 'I Hereby Bequeath ... '; Forty-nine A Treat for the Natives; Fifty Homecoming; Fifty-one Stranglehold; Fifty-two Man with a Mission; Fifty-three Breaking Point; Fifty-four Who Stole Your Grace?; Fifty-five The Forty-eight Mistakes; Fifty-six Unique in Soe; Fifty-seven The Major Development; Fifty-eight 'If I Should Die, Et Cetera'; Fifty-nine The Invisible Presence; Sixty Fumigated. Sixty-one A Mere Squadron LeaderSixty-two Without Precedent; Sixty-three Open Arrest; Sixty-four Misgivings; Sixty-five 'The Life that I Have'; Sixty-six April Fool's Day; Sixty-seven The New Boys; Sixty-eight Inexcusable; Sixty-nine For Your Ears Only; Seventy Neptune's Trident; Seventy-one Staying Power; Seventy-two 'They also Serve ... '; Seventy-three Self-defence; Seventy-four Taken for Granted; Seventy-five The Day of Reckoning; Seventy-six Pockets of Resistance; Seventy-seven Operation Periwig; Seventy-eight Serial Number 47685; Seventy-nine For Services Rendered; Eighty Exemplary Conduct. Eighty-one The Last MischiefEpilogue; Appendix One Fingerprinting WT Operators; Appendix Two Minute of 2 November 1943 from L.S. Marks, HQ Security & Planning Office; Plates; About the Author; Copyright.
• Publisher Details: Stroud : The History Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (876 pages)
• Subjects: 940.54/8641; Cryptographers -- Great Britain -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service; Cryptographes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Service secret; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; Cryptographers; Secret service; Great Britain; Biographies; History; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780752471600; 0752471600
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.