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

[mhari.livejournal.com]

You are kind of epic, you know that, right?

[annedroid-annedroid.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

What Mhairi said. These are awesome. Proud to know ya!

Heroes

[(Anonymous)]

You do know you're my hero, E--yes?

xxxJane

janeyolen

[sovay]

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.

If you have not read Leo Marks' Between Silk and Cyanide (1998), you are perhaps the person I know who most needs to, stat.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

The British used to smuggle maps like that to their prisoners in German POW camps by printing them on silk and sewing them into the lining of garments sent for "humanitarian purposes." The prisoners would then make many copies for escapers.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Those are so cool ;o)

[3rdragon]

So how big were the actual maps?

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I love the mini maps!

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

You're amazing.

[estara.livejournal.com]

I'm not just amazed at the fact that you can do this in the first place, I'm amazed at the quality of the workmanship of every little bit.