Seizing The Enigma

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783378586

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“An absorbing and thoroughly well documented account” of WWII naval intelligence and the Allied hunt for the Nazi code machine known as the Enigma (Warship). From the start of World War II to mid-1943, British and American naval forces fought a desperate battle against German submarine wolfpacks. And the Allies might have lost the struggle at sea without an astounding intelligence coup. Here, the author brings to life the race to break the German U-boat codes. As the Battle of the Atlantic raged, Hitler’s U-boats reigned. To combat the growing crisis, ingenious amateurs joined the nucleus of dedicated professionals at Bletchley Park to unlock the continually changing German naval codes. Their mission: to read the U-boat messages of Hitler’s cipher device, the Enigma. They first found success with the capture of U-110,—which yielded the Enigma machine itself and a trove of secret documents. Then the weather ship Lauenburg seized near the Arctic ice pack provided code settings for an entire month. Finally, two sailors rescued a German weather cipher that enabled the team at Bletchley to solve the Enigma after a year-long blackout. In “a highly recommended account with a wealth of materials” Seizing the Enigma tells the story of a determined corps of people who helped turn the tide of the war (Naval Historical Foundation).

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Ciphers
ISBN : 1435107918

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Seizing the Enigma by David Kahn Pdf

Author : Phil Shanahan
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750987004

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The Real Enigma Heroes by Phil Shanahan Pdf

For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtually unknown and uncelebrated. Two lost their lives retrieving vital German codebooks from a sinking U-boat. The third survived the war, only to die in a house fire soon afterwards. But it was the precious documents they seized in October 1942 that enabled Bletchley Park's code-breakers to crack Enigma and so win the Battle of the Atlantic. Now recognised as a pivotal moment in world history, three British servicemen made it possible to finally beat the U-boats, but at the time not even their families could be told of the importance of their deeds. Shrouded in secrecy for decades, then recast as fictional Americans by the Hollywood film U-571, this book sets the record straight. It is written in celebration of Colin Grazier GC, Tony Fasson GC, and Tommy Brown GM - the REAL Enigma heroes.

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466562042

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How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code by David Kahn Pdf

Spies, secret messages, and military intelligence have fascinated readers for centuries but never more than today, when terrorists threaten America and society depends so heavily on communications. Much of what was known about communications intelligence came first from David Kahn's pathbreaking book, The Codebreakers. Kahn, considered the dean of

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008295266

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Kahn on Codes by David Kahn Pdf

Author : R. A. Ratcliff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521855228

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Delusions of Intelligence by R. A. Ratcliff Pdf

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Author : Eberhard Rössler
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0304361208

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The U-boat by Eberhard Rössler Pdf

It's the enthusiast's bible of U-boat history and development, with more detail and technical information than any other book on the subject. Displaying photographic coverage second to none, it has a wealth of submarine plans and profiles that illustrate every aspect of design and operation. Track the constant improvements implemented from World War I to World War II and beyond: the single-drive models, small and midget versions, the move to high submerge speed, the change to Type XXI and XXIII constructions, and production in the twilight of Nazi defeat. A Selection of the Military Book Club.

Author : Dermot Turing
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750989671

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X, Y and Z by Dermot Turing Pdf

December, 1932 In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs top-secret documents – the operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lays the foundations for the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. The co-operation between France, Britain and Poland is given the cover-name 'X, Y & Z'. December, 1942 It is the middle of World War Two. The Polish code-breakers have risked their lives to continue their work inside Vichy France, even as an uncertain future faces their homeland. Now they are on the run from the Gestapo. People who know the Enigma secret are not supposed to be in the combat zone, so MI6 devises a plan to exfiltrate them. If it goes wrong, if they are caught, the consequences could be catastrophic for the Allies. Based on original research and newly released documents, X, Y & Z is the exhilarating story of those who risked their lives to protect the greatest secret of World War Two.

Author : Terry Trueman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062216991

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Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman Pdf

This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300129885

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The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail by David Kahn Pdf

One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States win a major diplomatic victory at the 1921 disarmament conference. But when his unit was closed in 1929 because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," Yardley wrote a best-selling memoir that introduced-and disclosed-codemaking and codebreaking to the public. David Kahn de-scribes the vicissitudes of Yardley's career, including his work in China and Canada, offers a capsule history of American intelligence up to World War I, and gives a short course in classical codes and ciphers. He debunks the accusations that the publication of Yardley's book caused Japan to change its codes and ciphers and that Yardley traitorously sold his solutions to Japan. And he asserts that Yardley's disclosures not only did not hurt but actually helped American codebreaking during World War II.

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1591148073

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Seizing the Enigma by David Kahn Pdf

Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991.

Author : Simon Singh
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780375890123

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The Code Book: The Secrets Behind Codebreaking by Simon Singh Pdf

"As gripping as a good thriller." --The Washington Post Unpack the science of secrecy and discover the methods behind cryptography--the encoding and decoding of information--in this clear and easy-to-understand young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that's perfect for this age of WikiLeaks, the Sony hack, and other events that reveal the extent to which our technology is never quite as secure as we want to believe. Coders and codebreakers alike will be fascinated by history's most mesmerizing stories of intrigue and cunning--from Julius Caesar and his Caeser cipher to the Allies' use of the Enigma machine to decode German messages during World War II. Accessible, compelling, and timely, The Code Book is sure to make readers see the past--and the future--in a whole new way. "Singh's power of explaining complex ideas is as dazzling as ever." --The Guardian

Author : Stephan Talty
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547614816

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Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty Pdf

Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.

Author : Francis Harry Hinsley,Alan Stripp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0192801325

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Codebreakers by Francis Harry Hinsley,Alan Stripp Pdf

The story of Bletchley Park, the successful intelligence operation that cracked Germany's Enigma Code. Photos.

Author : David Kahn
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015002319849

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Hitler's Spies by David Kahn Pdf

The first full account of Hitler's extensive intelligence network-and the dramatic story of how Germany lost the battle of the secret services in World War II.