Enigma - The Battle for the Code

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

Pheonix

2001

491 páginas

16h 22m

ISBN-10: 0753811308

No episode in the Second World War has captured the modern imagination more strongly than the cracking of the Enigma code by the boffins at Bletchley Park.
Yet was this what really happened? Without for a moment belittleing the work of Alan Turing and his team of eccentric codebreakers, this book shows the extent to which the breaking of the all-important Naval Enigma code was reliant on more traditional forms of cloak and dagger: the heroic capture of ships and U-boats and their codebooks on the high seas, ...