Enigma: The Battle For The Code

Enigma: The Battle For The Code

by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Enigma: The Battle For The Code

Enigma: The Battle For The Code

by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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Overview

The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780221236
Publisher: Orion
Publication date: 07/21/2011
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Barrister and journalist (currently attached to the Mail on Sunday). His family owned Bletchley Park - here the Enigma code was broken - until they sold it to the British government in 1937.
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore was a barrister before becoming a journalist and subsequently an author. He has written for the SUNDAY TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY and MAIL ON SUNDAY. He is the author of KINGS ON THE CATWALK, ings on the Catwalk: The THE LOUIS VUITTON MOËT-HENNESSY AFFAIR and three bestselling works of history: ENIGMA: THE BATTLE FOR THE CODE, DUNKIRK: FIGHT TO THE LAST MAN and SOMME: INTO THE BREACH. His family used to own Bletchley Park until it was sold to the government in the late 1930s.
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