escape maps

[ewein2412]

WHEN Code Name Verity is made into a movie, I really want The Manuscript to play Itself. OH such an ongoing tale of battles won and lost! But the Official Secrets Act (if not actual professional integrity) prevents me from publicly giving out any details. The war's not over yet.

meanwhile I continue to vent my frustration in creating equipment for Very Small Spies.

Escape maps were made of silk because it was more durable than paper, you could fold it in your pocket, and it didn't make a noise when you unfolded it. These are printed on cotton, though. The one on the left is southern France c. 1940, and the one on the right is France/Belgium/Holland upright and the Pyrenees upside down, c. 1943.

Comments

[sovay]

although, at this point, it kind of qualifies as retro research.

Mostly I just think you'd love it.

[ewein2412]

i have ordered it. i just realized he's the same guy that wrote Violette Szabo's poem.

[sovay]

i just realized he's the same guy that wrote Violette Szabo's poem.

There's a good interview with him here; he only died in 2001.

[ewein2412]

"Do not reject any girl on grounds of insanity without first offering her to SOE."

wonderful!