Enigma: The Battle for the Code

HHugh Sebag -Montefiore

ISBN 10: 0471490350 / ISBN 13: 9780471490357

Verlag: John Wiley & Son, 2001

Beschreibung

This is a WWII Military History Soft cover book in Very Good++ condition. c2001. Reprint of British Edition from 2000. First Paperback Printing. (Great Book For he Military History Collector). It looks Very lightly read with hardly any shelf wear The Pages are tight & unmarked. no names. NOT a remainder.Very light edge wear. 326 pages. #22052-0225. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 022052

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Titel: Enigma: The Battle for the Code

Verlag: John Wiley & Son

Erscheinungsdatum: 2001

Einband: Soft Cover Book

Zustand: Very Good++

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket Issued

Auflage: Reprint Edition.

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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 complete 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE is an attorney and journalist who has written for numerous British newspapers, including the Sunday times, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Observer. His family owned Bletchley Park before it was sold to the British government in the late 1930s. He lives in London.