Enigma
Subtitle: the battle for the code
By: Hugh Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780760791189
Subjects: Enigma cipher system; History; World War, 1939-1945; Cryptography; Electronic intelligence; Secret service; German Naval operations; Machine ciphers; Naval Military operations; German
Other titles: Battle for the code
Description: "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 -- a breakthrough that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II. This fascinating account recounts 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 form sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. The author 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, where the day-to-day grind to decode Enigma went on." -- Jacket.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : John Wiley, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-412) and index.
Table of contents: title: The betrayal : Belgium and Germany, 1931 --; title: The leak : Poland, Belgium and Germany, 1929-38 --; title: An inspired guess : Poland, 1932 --; title: A terrible mistake : Poland, 1933-9 --; title: Flight : Germany, Poland, France and England, 1939-40 --; title: The first capture : Scotland, 1940 --; title: Mission Impossible : Norway and Bletchley Park, 1940 --; title: Keeping the Enigma secret : France and Bletchley Park, May-September 1940 --; title: Deadlock : Bletchley Park, August --; title: October, 1940 --; title: The Italian affair : Bletchley Park and the Mediterranean, March 1941 --; title: The end of the beginning : Norway, March 1941 --; title: Breakthrough : North of Iceland, May 1941 --; title: Operation Primrose : the Atlantic, May 1941 --; title: The knock-out blow : North of Iceland, June 1941 --; title: Suspicion : Bletchley Park, the Atlantic and Berlin, May -October 1941 --; title: A two-edged sword : the Atlantic and the Cape Verde Islands, September 1941 --; title: Living dangerously : the South Atlantic and Norway, November 1941-March 1942 --; title: The hunt for the Bigram tables : Bletchley Park and Norway, December 1941 --; title: Black out : the Barents Sea, Bletchley Park, and the admiralty, February-July 1942 --; title: Breaking the deadlock : the Mediterranean and Bletchley Park, October-December 1942 --; title: The turning point : South France, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, November 1942-September 1943 --; title: Trapped : South France, November 1942-March 1943 --; title: The arrest : Berlin, March-September 1943 --; title: Sinking the Scharnhorst : the Barents Sea, December 1943 --; title: Operation covered : Paris, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic, August 1943-March 1944 --; title: The last Hiccough : Germany, France, and the South Atlantic, March-June 1944 --; title: Epilogue : Where did they go?