Description
In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes.
Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma code used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all the odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his guards.
About the Author
Michael Smith is a defence correspondent at the Daily Telegraph
Book Information
ISBN 9780330419291
Author Michael Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 268g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm
