Very Special Intelligence
by Patrick Beesly
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The best book about British naval intelligence in World War II, including how the Enigma machine was used to crack the German secret codes.Tags
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I believe this was the first Book on Ultra and Enigma in the naval war, 1939 - 45. The prose isn't lively, and overall, one engages with this book looking for chronology and techniques. Useful but not fun.
How Britain pioneered so-called all-source fusion: uniting & mapping intelligence from decryption, signals, agents, local resistance, in a single “war room” frame - to win the naval struggle of WWII.
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- People/Characters
- Rodger Winn; Norman Denning; Geoffrey Colpoys; Karl Dönitz
- Important places
- The Admiralty, London, England, UK
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945 | Intelligence)
- Quotations
- Commander Colpoys, of OIC, suggested that they be given the designation Ultra, about the only Latin he could remember, and this was the adopted. (pp. 142)
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- Czech, English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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