The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
by Gordon Welchman
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"Now, for the first time, the insider?s view of the Enigma story and other clandestine operations is revealed by Gordon Welchman, a top British mathematician who was largely responsible for the crucial achievements at Bletchley Park in the first months of the war"--Jacket.Tags
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Breaking the Enigma cipher was not a do it once and its done kind of thing. The combination of all the various possible settings formed the "key" to decoding a message encoded using an Enigma machine. The Germans changed the key every day at midnight. So the code-breakers had to begin again. The techniques used changed several times during the war requiring changes in the process required to break the key. The book is about breaking the keys used by the German armies and air force. I've ordered another book about the naval codes.
After reading other books on the topic and era you may find that Welchman may have had a problem with humility.
After reading other books on the topic and era you may find that Welchman may have had a problem with humility.
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- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- John Herivel; Gordon Welchman; Alastair Denniston; Edward Travis; Stuart Milner-Barry
- Important places
- Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, Ultra
- Dedication
- To Alastair Denniston, Marian Rejewski, Dilly Knox, and Edward Travis. To the many men and women whose varied talents and total dedication contributed to the success of Hut 6 in World War II. And to those among us who, seriou... (show all)sly concerned with our national security, will see to it that the story of this success, no longer hidden, is fully utilized in our anticipation for future dangers.
- First words
- On a Sunday in the summer of 1974 my wife, Teeny, and I were staying in England with her grandmother, whose son-in-law was reading the Sunday Telegraph. Finding an interesting article, he showed it to me. It was the second pa... (show all)rt of "Deepest Secret of the War" by F. W. Winterbotham, and it was a discussion of secret activities World War II in which myself had taken part.
- Quotations
- We were lucky. (pp. 169)
As I have shown, this organization [Hut 6] was an unusually happy one and was unusually effective. Our harmony stemmed internally from the fact that everyone was doing a clearly defined job for which he or she was well qualif... (show all)ied. (pp. 179-180)
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- English
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