Enigma: The Battle for the Code Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Summary
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On Sunday 1 November 1931 Hans Thilo Schmidt, a forty-three-year-old executive at the German Defence Ministry Cipher Office in Berlin, took a step from which there was no turning back.
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ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA
"CRACKING STUFF...VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS." -Sunday Times (London)
"IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP." -Washington Post
Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code "the secret weapon that won the war." Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the c"omplete" story of the breaking of the code by the Allies--the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II.
This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffe's version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archives--including previously confidential government files--and in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, "Enigma" unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history.
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- Title Enigma: The Battle for the Code
- Author Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 422
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley (TP), Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-02-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780471490357 / 0471490350
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6 x 1.17 in (23.88 x 15.24 x 2.97 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service, World War, 1939-1945 - Cryptography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 000043920
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.548
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