Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1933-1945
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1526711451 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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One senses that in the future Seizing the Enigma will be regarded in the same vein. “Kahn’s 1997 history of cryptology The Codebreakers is regarded as the seminal work on the subject. He deftly mixes intricate accounts of the workings of the Enigma machines themselves and their accompanying codes with useful pen portraits of the principal characters involved…an absorbing and thoroughly well documented account.” Naval Books of the Year column in Warship, 2013“The book remains a highly recommended account with a wealth of materials.” Naval History Book Reviews, Naval Historical Foundation. Kahn tells a long and technically demanding story with all the skills of a professional journalist
John Ratcliff said Great account of the effort by the Allies, especially Britain, to break Enigma. I have read a number of accounts of the role of Bletchley Park and other factors accounting for breaking the German Enigma code and cipher system during World War II. This is by far the most complete. In particular, Kahn describes how important to the overall effort capturing actual code books was without in any way diminishin. Great book Dale D. Wyatt I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It showed the complexities of enigma and the race to break the code. I had seen the movie the Imitation Game which is a poor Hollywood version of what really happened at Bletchley. I particularly enjoyed the pictures of the machine and the explanation of how a message was sent through the enigma. Todd L. Webber said I wanted to like this as I'm quite interested in history and espionage. I wanted to like this as I'm quite interested in history and espionage. The book was too detailed on how the Enigma was assembled and its technical features which made long sections of the book too tedious.
A former editor of Newsday, he lives in New York and is one of the world’s leading historians of cryptography. . DAVID KAHN holds a PhD in history from Oxford University and is the author of the Codebreakers and Hitler’s Spies. He has written many articles on codes and intelligence, from the Historical Journal to the New York Times
In the Mediterranean, two sailors rescued a German weather cipher than enabled the team at Bletchley to solve the Enigma after a yearlong blackout.. U-110, captured intact in the mid-Atlantic, yielded an example of the Enigma machine itself – as well as a trove of secret documents. The weather ship Lauenburg, seized near the Arctic ice pack, provided code-settings for an entire month. For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to the middle of 1943, the British and, in time, American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German U-boat wolf-packs. Their mission: to read the U-boat messages of Hitler’s cipher device, the Enigma.Critical to their success was a series of raids at sea.