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Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years …
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The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years …

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I love this book so much. This is the book I would hand out to people just starting a job as a programmer. It's especially useful for consultants and programmers on services teams; it tells you how to take a series of meetings and turn them into a common language for talking about domain objects.

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