Reddit reviews Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
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Leo Marks's memoir of his work as an SOE cryptographer is a highly readable, funny, sometimes emotionally powerful record of an unusual perspective on the war. As a codebreaker and deviser of code systems, his mission was to help agents in the field stay alive by avoiding capture. Interesting profiles of Allied agents including Noor Inayat Khan, Grouse/Swallow, Violette Szabo and his friend Tommy Yeo-Thomas, a.k.a. 'White Rabbit.'
"If you brief an agent on a Monday, and on Thursday you read that he has had his eyes taken out with a fork, you age rapidly," he writes.
A glance at all of the KIAs on the list of SOE agents suggests that the German spies in Britain had it a lot better.
Read up on these in "Between Silk and Cyanide." Easy reading and fascinating. Silk was durable and quiet. No rustling in the dark.
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Between Silk and Cyanide by a cipher expert in the SOE.
Sometimes it makes you wonder how the Allies won the war, what with the incompetence and the in-fighting (between SOE departments, and between the British, Free French and US).
On the other hand, the courage of the agents sent into Europe was amazing. Particularly poignant were the stories of the female agents who were captured by the Germans.
not necessarily from german viewpoints, but a few of my favorite reads from my collection.
Ordinary men - by Christopher Browning
Life Unworthy Life - by James M Glass
My Father's Keeper - by Stephen & Norbert Lebert
Children of the Flames - by Lucette matalon Lagnado
Between Silk and Cyanide - by Leo Marks
The Men with the Pink Triangle - by Heinz Heger
I'll add more as i think and consult my bookshelves.