Enigma: The Battle for the Code
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Language: English
Pages: 448
ISBN: 0471490350
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“CRACKING STUFF…VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS.” –Sunday Times (London)
“IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP.” –Washington Post
Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code “the secret weapon that won the war.” Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Allies—the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II.
This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffe’s version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archives—including previously confidential government files—and in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, Enigma unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history.
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Already set up their Enigma machines in accordance with the settings list, so that the c'lrrect wheels are in their Enigmas, the correct plugboard connections have been made etc. The message sender decided what message setting to use. It might be, say, ReM. He would then turn 39 A TERRIBLE MISTAKE his Enigma wheels to an initial position (Grundstellung) which might be, say, ABC, which was specified in the settings list for the day in question, and he would tap the RCM keyboard keys.
Captured U-559 who has lived to tell the tale of what happened inside, Paul Paillole, the head of French Counter-Intelligence during the war, who has spoken frankly about how the French helped to break the Enigma in the first place, and how subsequently their action gave the Germans the opportunity to find out about the Allies' Enigma secret, and Gisela Schmidt, who bravely decided to reveal everything she knew about her father Hans Thilo Schmidt, in spite xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the pain.
And England, I939-40 could only hope that would change once the Germans began conducting major naval operations. For the moment, he was stuck in a dead end job with no opportunity to make his mark. * At the same time as Harry Hinsley was successfully crossing the bridge to Strasbourg, a more frenetic bid for freedom was being made 600 miles away in Warsaw by Poland's codebreakers. As more and more German troops crossed over the border into Poland, Marian Rejewski, who seven years earlier had.
Would bicycle around the countryside wearing a gas mask. He refused to repair his bicycle, even though the chain was faulty. Instead, he counted the number of revolutions it took before the chain became unstable, and then backpedalled until it was safe to ride normally again. Anyone could see the state the bicycle was in, he reasoned, so no one would try to steal it. That was not the case with his tea mug. Rather than risk losing it, he chained it to a radiator with a padlock. The hope that Naval.
Having sunk the Athenia. At this point, First-Lieutenant Ulrich Loewe, another of the committed Nazis on the U-boat, turned to Ecke and told him to look carefully at the faces of the terrified crew. It would be something worth recording in one of Ecke's propaganda articles, Loewe said. As the reports specifying the damage came through the intercom from the front and rear of the U-boat, even Lemp's jokes and reassuring words began to wear a little thin. The rudders were not functioning, the.