Enigma: The Battle For The Code - Softcover

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474608329 ISBN 13: 9781474608329

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

Cracking stuff (Robert Harris THE TIMES)

Unquestionably deepens and enriches our understanding of the Bletchley story ... Sebag-Montefiore demonstrates superbly that the seizure of the Enigma codebooks was among the crucial episodes in Britain's prosecution of the war (OBSERVER)

Book Description:

The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken, reissued for the 75th anniversary of the event. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the Oscar-winning film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474608329
• ISBN 13: 9781474608329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608