Cribs for Victory: The Untold Story of Bletchley Park's Secret Room - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0955954185 ISBN 13 : 9780955954184

Editeur : Polperro Heritage Press, 2011

Synopsis

Cribs For Victory is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park's Fusion Room during World War II by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved. The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted by the log readers from the daily radio traffic between enemy stations, thus enabling a complete wartime picture of the enemy order of battle to be constructed. Neil Webster's liaison role between traffic analysis and cryptography meant he was centrally involved in the search for 'cribs' - short pieces of enciphered text where the meaning is either known or can be guessed, allowing the whole cipher to be broken. His book describes this intensive search in detail, the intellectual and technical challenge, the personal stories, the setbacks and the triumphs. Security clearance for publication of his first-hand account was only granted in 2010, more than 20 years after his death. Was it too close to the real truth about how Enigma was broken and the inner workings of British intelligence? Webster's daughter, Joss Pearson, believes her father's book was just too clear, both about the relationship between signals intelligence and cryptography, and about the habits of the German military mind that opened the door to understanding Enigma.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joss Pearson, Neil Webster's daughter, is known in the publishing world as founder of Gaia Books, the international co-edition publishing house, famous for such books as The Gaia Atlas of Planet Management, The Natural House Book and Sivananda Companion to Yoga. An Oxford scholar, she has worked in publishing all her life. She is married and has two daughters and divides her time between London and Gloucestershire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polperro Heritage Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955954185
• ISBN 13: 9780955954184
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Pearson Joss
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible