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It is February 1942 and the war in the Atlantic looks grim for the Allied convoys. The 'Great Blackout' has started, leaving the spy centre of Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire at a loss as to what the Nazis are planning. U-boat Command has changed the Hydra cipher. The Enigma cannot be broken. Cipher experts can no longer eavesdrop on Nazi command, which leaves convoys open for attack by packs of marauding Nazi submarines. Winning the Battle of the Atlantic will surely give Hitler a final victory. And who can stop him?
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Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was born in 1925 into an ancient Cornish seafaring family. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of sixteen and spent much of his early life at sea. He was torpedoed during the Second World War and his resulting spinal injuries plagues him for the rest of his life. Towards the end of the war he turned to jouralism becoming the Naval and Defence Correspondent for the London Evening News. Encouraged by Hornblower creator CS Forester, he began writing fiction using his own experiences in the Navy and his extensive historical reseacrh as a basis. In 1965 he wrote 'Ramage', the first of his highly successful series of novels following the exploits of the heroic Lord Nicholas Ramage during the Napoleonic Wars. He continued to live aboard boats whenever possible and this was where he wrote the majority of his novels. Dudley Pope died in 1997 aged seventy one. 'The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower' - Daily Mirror
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0436377446
- ISBN 13 9780436377440
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: LIKE NEW. 1st Edition. 1983. Alison Press / Secker and Warburg. First. Book: Near Fine. Dj: Near Fine, protective covered. 9x5.5. 265pp. Using the Hydra cipher sent through the secret Enigma code machine, Admiral Donitz talked freely with his U-boats as they ranged the Atlantic, seeking and sinking Allied convoys. This book describes the battle of the ciphers in a story which takes you from quiet Buckingham to a U-boat being depth-charged in mid-Atlantic, from Coastal Command Sunderland forced to land nearby, to Donitz'd headquarters and to Number 10 Downing Street. Seller Inventory # 150566
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Decoy; a novel by Dudley Pope; an Alison Press Book, Secker & Warburg, London, 1983. First edition. From the blurb Using the Hydra cipher sent through the secret Enigma code machine, admiral Donitz talked freely with his U-boats as they ranged the Atlantic, seeking and sinking Allied convoys. British cipher experts eavesdropped on Enigma and read almost every Hrdra signal sent to and from the U-boats. But suddenly that British eye was blinded: in February 1942, as it became clear the Germans were winning the battle of the Atlantic, the U-boat command changed the Hydra cipher and altered the Enigma machine. The Great Blackout had started. This book is about the battle of the ciphers. Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick O'Brian. This book, 265 pages is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is in a protective mylar wrap. There is a small blank remainder mark on the bottom of the text pages. Seller Inventory # 2293
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