Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park (Pan Grand Strategy Series)

Smith, Professor Of European Politics Department Of European Studies Michael

ISBN 10: 0330419293 / ISBN 13: 9780330419291

Verlag: Pan Publishing, 2004

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.14XTL

Inhaltsangabe:

In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes.

Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma code used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all the odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his guards.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Michael Smith is the number-one bestselling author of Station X. He served in the British Army's Intelligence Corps and was an award-winning journalist for the BBC, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. He is now a full-time novelist and intelligence historian. He lives near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

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Titel: Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley ...
Verlag: Pan Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good