Enigma: The Battle for the Code
Author(s): Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
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Has the essential ingredients for a spellbinding war story: larger-than-life characters, nail-biting cliffhangers, murky, backroom in fighting and breathtaking under-water drama Previous paperback edition has been reprinted twelve times 140,000 copies of paperback edition already sold New revelations based on hitherto secret files The film of Robert Harris's novel, Enigma, starring Kate Winslet and Dougray Scott, was a major movie hit 'Cracking stuff' Sunday Times 'Unquestionably deepens and enriches our understanding of the Bletchley story...Sebag-Montefiore demonstrates superbly that the sei
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist. He has written for the SUNDAY TIMES, the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, the INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY and the MAIL ON SUNDAY. His family owned Bletchley Park before it was sold to the Government in the late 1930s and he lives in London with his wife and three children.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Weidenfeld Military
- : 0.36
- : 01 October 2004
- : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
- : Paperback
- : 2
- : 940.548641
- : 592
- : 55 B/W Photo\Illu(s)