description: A masterpiece of poetry in prose. High stakes British efforts to decode the German Enigma code. A German submarine Wolfpack. A vulnerable British convoy in the North Atlantic on a moonlit night. Sacrifices that some had to make to enable the famed Bletchley park to break the German code. Brilliant minds working together to make the breakthrough possible. The beginning of the modern computer age, when first computers had mechanical switches, but the electronic revolution was on the horizon. Alan Turing, the great mathematician, working with other scholars to break the German code, and end the depredation of Allied convoys by the Kriegsmarine. A time in history when mathematics and theory saved the Allied shipping and set the stage for the final defeat of Hitler’s Reich. This book brings you back to read it, and it is definitely an intricate and intelligently written page turner. ( Amazon customer)
language: English
title: Enigma
titlecomplete: Enigma
characters: Hester Wallace, Tom Jericho, Claire Romilly
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Crime, World War II
ratings_count: 15469
places: England
publisher: Audiobooks