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A review by fasantucci
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.5
Like many nonfiction war novels, this book is heartbreaking. Somehow all these years later, armies still have bureaucracy issues and people won’t “play nice” when we’re on the same side - and this novel highlights the very real consequences of that in war with agents’ lives lost.
The author’s self-assuredness comes through and reads as cockiness sometimes, but it lent a very authentic feel to the story, even if I doubt his memory’s accuracy on some things all these years later (especially after reading The Optimism Bias, lol).
Highly recommend for anyone who’s into nonfiction war stories or WWII stuff! You don’t have to be able to fully understand the codes he introduces to be able to follow the book.
The author’s self-assuredness comes through and reads as cockiness sometimes, but it lent a very authentic feel to the story, even if I doubt his memory’s accuracy on some things all these years later (especially after reading The Optimism Bias, lol).
Highly recommend for anyone who’s into nonfiction war stories or WWII stuff! You don’t have to be able to fully understand the codes he introduces to be able to follow the book.