David Kahn - already acknowledged as an expert historian of Intelligence in the Second World War after his earlier books The Codebreakers and Hitlers Spies - focuses here on the key struggle to win the Battle of Atlantic. The Royal Navy and the RAF played vital roles, of course, in protecting Allied shipping from Nazi submarines and in capturing secret documents and cipher machines, but the real Intelligence battle was fought, and won, at Bletchley Park in rural England where a growing band of eccentrics struggled and ...
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David Kahn - already acknowledged as an expert historian of Intelligence in the Second World War after his earlier books The Codebreakers and Hitlers Spies - focuses here on the key struggle to win the Battle of Atlantic. The Royal Navy and the RAF played vital roles, of course, in protecting Allied shipping from Nazi submarines and in capturing secret documents and cipher machines, but the real Intelligence battle was fought, and won, at Bletchley Park in rural England where a growing band of eccentrics struggled and finally broke the secret German codes. The size of the whole operation became staggering, but without it Britain's supply lines would have been cut and Germany would have been able to invade, or sue for peace. SEIZING THE ENIGMA is brilliantly researched and written. It is a fitting account and tribute of one of the key struggles of WWII.
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Intelligence, Espionage, Reconnaissance & Electronic Warfare Mass market paperback, Good. The battle of wits by the team at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing, to break the continually changing German U-boat codes. Includes the capture of the U-110 with an intact Enigma machine and documents, the seizure of the weather ship Lauenburg with its code settings for an entire month & the heroic salvaging by two soldiers of a German weather cipher in the Mediterranean. UL-XXXXXX. 326pp, index, illustrations.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Dustwrapper, pp. xii, 387, bw ills. Minor marks to dustwrapper in places else a very clean, crisp copy.
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Very Good. 0760708630. Revised edition, 336 pages illustrated with black & white photographs. Very good hard back with a very good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. "For almost four desperate years, from 1939 to mid-1943, the British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolfpacks. The Allies might never have turned the tide without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the greatest untold stories of World War II. Kahn expertly brings this tale to life in this newly-updated edition of his classic book. Soon after war broke out, Hitler s U-boats began to sever Allied lifelines. In the gray wasteland of the North Atlantic, submarines prowled; at night, the sky lit up with the flames of exploding tankers. To meet the growing crisis, ingenious amateurs joined the nucleus of dedicated professionals at Bletchley Park. As the Battle of the Atlantic raged, they raced to unlock the continually changing German naval codes. Their mission: to read the U-boat messages of Hitler s cipher device, the Enigma. Critical to their success was a series of raids at sea. U-110, captured intact in the mid-Atlantic, yielded the Enigma machine itself and also a trove of secret documents. The weather ship Lauenburg seized near the Arctic ice pack provided codesettings for an entire month. In the Mediterranean, two sailors rescued a German weather cipher than enabled the team at Bletchley to solve the Enigma after a year-long blackout. "
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Edition:
First edition-first impression of this edition
Publisher:
Frontline
Published:
2012
Alibris ID:
11942543068
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Fine/Near fine. Frontline Books, 2012. First edition-first impression of this edition. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick and crease on the edges of the spine) in fine condition, with Dj(two small creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover) in near fine condition. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps. Nice and clean pages as new with a small nick on the outer edges, two small creases on the edges of the pages, light shelf wear on the Dj cover.387pp including List of maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Price un-clipped. Heavy book.
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