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Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II

£3.99 GBP £19.99
Illustrated with 120 black-&-white and colour photographs, artworks and maps, Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II is an authoritative and novel perspective on WWII history.

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By Michael Kerrigan

Hardback 

At its peak in January 1945, 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, reading 4000 messages a day, decrypting German and Japanese communications and helping the Allies to victory. But while we know that Bletchley was the centre of Britain's World War II code-breaking, how did its efforts actually change the course of the war?

Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II tells the story of Bletchley's role in defeating U-boats in the Atlantic, breaking the Japanese codes, helping the Allies to victory in North Africa, deciphering the German military intelligence code, learning of most German positions in western Europe before the Normandy Landings, defeating the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean, and helping sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway. In tracing these events, the book also delves into the stories of major Bletchley characters, 'boffins' such as Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, and 'Debs' such as Joan Clarke and Margaret Rock.

An accessible work of military history that ranges across air, land and naval warfare, the book also touches on the story of early computer science. Illustrated with 120 black-&-white and colour photographs, artworks and maps, Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II is an authoritative and novel perspective on WWII history.

 

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Well illustrated

This is very well illustrated with photographs and gives some historical context to the subject. However it is technically flawed, some aspects are misleading or inadequately covered. A reader that is broaching the subject for the first time will not get a true picture. More attention should have been given to the early Polish successes, the use of pure mathematics to break a code was a first ever. The technical nature of the various Enigma machines employed is not covered, and often misleading. In a work such as this an appendix covering the nuts-and-bolts would be useful and would not intrude into the flow of the narrative. For example the author does not state that the 4th rotor of the Kriegsmarine machine was static, built in by reducing the thickness of the reflector disc. He fails to pint out that the disc wiring of the commercial Enigmas, as used by the Italian navy and by civilian concerns before the war was different from the disc wiring of the military versions, the use of the plugboard and the way to discount it during decryption, etc.

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Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II

£3.99 GBP £19.99

By Michael Kerrigan

Hardback 

At its peak in January 1945, 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, reading 4000 messages a day, decrypting German and Japanese communications and helping the Allies to victory. But while we know that Bletchley was the centre of Britain's World War II code-breaking, how did its efforts actually change the course of the war?

Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II tells the story of Bletchley's role in defeating U-boats in the Atlantic, breaking the Japanese codes, helping the Allies to victory in North Africa, deciphering the German military intelligence code, learning of most German positions in western Europe before the Normandy Landings, defeating the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean, and helping sink the German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway. In tracing these events, the book also delves into the stories of major Bletchley characters, 'boffins' such as Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, and 'Debs' such as Joan Clarke and Margaret Rock.

An accessible work of military history that ranges across air, land and naval warfare, the book also touches on the story of early computer science. Illustrated with 120 black-&-white and colour photographs, artworks and maps, Enigma: How Breaking the Code Helped Win World War II is an authoritative and novel perspective on WWII history.

 

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