Capturing Enigma
How HMS Petard Seized the German Naval Codes
Published on 1. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7509-3050-5 (ISBN)
Description
An attack by a British destroyer on a German U-boat in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 altered the course of the entire war. The capture of secret coding material from U-559, at the cost of two of HMS Petard's crew, enabled Bletchley Park's codebreakers to successfully crack the U-boat cypher.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 112 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-3050-5 (9780750930505)
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Person
Stephen Harper served in the Royal Navy during World War II as a coder on HMS Petard on her second commission, from 1945 to 1946. After the war he followed a career as a journalist and was Foreign Correspondent for the Daily Express for more than 20 years, and later Chief Foreign Correspondent. He is the author of Last Sunset, Miracle of Deliverance, and two novels.