
Enigma
The Battle for the Code
Hugh Montefiore(Author)
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 15. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-7538-1130-6 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
16
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-1130-6 (9780753811306)
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10/2004
Weidenfeld Military
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Person
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.