Enigma

Enigma The Battle for the Code

75th anniversary edition

Paperback (12 Oct 2017)

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781474608329
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
Edition: 75th anniversary edition
DEWEY: 940.548641
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xxiv, 580 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 466g
Height: 130mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 36mm