SEIZING THE ENIGMA

Author: David Kahn

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Year published: 1991

Pagination: 336pp, 5 maps, 39 ills, appendix, notes, bibliography, index

Condition: very good in d/w

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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 and the heroic salvaging by two soldiers of a German weather cipher in the Mediterranean.