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The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.
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― Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
― Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
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The need to justify and its sister frailty, the need to boast, were lethal weaknesses in SOE.
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― Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
― Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945























