Leo Marks (1920–2001)
Auteur van Between Silk and Cyanide
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Leo Marks is renowned both as a cryptographer and as a screenwriter. His most famous work, Peeping Tom, a terrifying psychological thriller, is a cult classic of 1960s cinema, rereleased in 1999 under the auspices of Martin Scorsese. His father, Benjamin Marks, was the founder and owner of the toon meer legendary London bookshop 84 Charing Cross Road. toon minder
Werken van Leo Marks
Twisted Nerve [1968 film] — Writer — 2 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Marks, Leopold Samuel
- Geboortedatum
- 1920-09-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2001-01-15
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
- Opleiding
- St Paul's School, London, UK
- Beroepen
- SOE Codemaker (1942-1945)
screenwriter
playwright - Relaties
- Marks, Elena Gaussen (wife)
Marks, Benjamin (father) - Organisaties
- Special Operations Executive
Special Forces Club - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
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Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war,… door Leo Marks
A fantastic, humorous, very well-written memoir by Britain's top codemaker and Director of Communications for SOE during WWII. At age 23 Marks leaves home hoping to do his bit for his country. While everyone else in his cryptographic class heads off for Bletchley Park, Leo ends up on Baker Street with the SEO. He becomes the head of code making for the British. His story is honest, self-deprecating, and funny. But he never forgets the agents lost, especially Violette Szabo and Yeo-Thomas. The title refers to a conversation Marks had to convince the purse-string holders to produce his codes on strips of silk. He says the agents lives may very well come down to his silks, or cyanide. Highly recommended. (Read and reviewed in 2017)… (meer)
½Another WWII book that's quite different. Unbelievable that Leo Marks was a master cryptographer and was only in his 20's. Irreverent, funny, sarcastic and readable describing very hard to describe methods of encrypting agents messages and the value of communications in war and peace time.
This on will move along to a non-BC reader in Utah.
This on will move along to a non-BC reader in Utah.
British codebreaker’s memoir of WWII, where he tried to keep agents safe and occasionally succeeded. Dry British humor and lots of bureaucratic infighting.
A good book and generally interesting but too long
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