"Attendez," he said, and went back to his truck. A second box, this one containing Leo Marks's gigantic memoir, was soon passed through my window. It's been a memorable book day out here in the French countryside.
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Helene Hanff fans will know him as the son of Ben Marks, the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in London. I can't wait to read about S.O.E. agents passing messages to each other and doing coding work over tea and cakes at 84, Charing Cross Road.
When Hanff finally visited London, Leo Marks invited her to dinner. It's unlikely that the subject of the Charing Cross Road spy ring came up in the evening's conversation. Code-breaking operations were classified well into the 1970s. This book wasn't cleared for publication until 1998.
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