Voices of the Code Breakers: Personal Accounts Of The Secret Heroes Of World War Ii - Softcover

Pereira, Ph.D, Emmanuel

 
9780715327197: Voices of the Code Breakers: Personal Accounts Of The Secret Heroes Of World War Ii

Synopsis

This title offers a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of Wwii was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers.

From the British cryptologists to the Navajo Indians whose codes helped win the war against Japan, this book reveals the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged determination and moments of sheer brilliance, to expose how the war was really won.

It includes an intriguing glimpse of the early history of the computer - its spectacular uses and subsequent development. It features vivid first-hand accounts from the staff of Bletchley Park, French and Dutch resistance fighters, the American secret agents and members of the Services Liaison Unit who passed on vital coded information to field commanders. It also includes a 16 page plate section with rare archive photographs.

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About the Author

Michael Paterson is a military historian, researcher, writer and illustrator who began his career at the military magazine Battlefield Review. He's the author of Battle for the Skies and Winston Churchill: His Military Life 1895-1945. He lives in Walworth, England.

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9780715322802: Voices from the Code Breakers: In World War II

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ISBN 10:  071532280X ISBN 13:  9780715322802
Publisher: David & Charles, 2007
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