Enigma by Hugh Montefiore

Enigma by Hugh Montefiore

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Enigma by Hugh 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 will tell the whole Enigma story: the 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.
Barrister and journalist (currently attached to the Mail on Sunday). His family owned Bletchley Park - where the Enigma code was broken - until they sold it to the British government in 1937.
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ISBN 13 9780753811306
ISBN 10 0753811308
Title Enigma
Author Hugh Montefiore
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2001-02-15
Number of pages 416
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