Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigma - Couverture rigide

Batey, Mavis

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ISBN 10 : 1906447012 ISBN 13 : 9781906447014

Editeur : Dialogue, 2009

Synopsis

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dilly is the little known story of the man who did more than anyone else to break the German Enigma code, an event key to the allies ultimate victory in the Second World War Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known as Dilly, was Britain s leading wartime codebreaker, a famously eccentric and temperamental genius who cracked German ciphers in both wars. The son of a famous religious scholar, Knox worked in the Admiralty s Room 40 codebreaking operation during the First World War, breaking the German Admiral s Flag Code, and between the wars he deciphered the text of the Herodas papyri and broke the Enigma cipher machine used by Franco s royalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War Knox became Britain s chief cryptographer, working in a cottage at the world-famous Bletchley Park assisted only by his girls , the best of the young female codebreakers available to him. Knox s work would eventually provide the solution to German secret service Enigma cipher, playing a key part in the Double-Cross deception system which ensured the success of the 1944 D-Day landings. Knox himself, however, never saw the triumph, sadly dying of cancer in 1943.

Biographie de l'auteur

A top codebreaker in her own right, Mavis Batey was one of Knox s female assistants at Bletchley Park. Dilly is a compelling and affectionate portait of a great British eccentric and a fascinating and detailed behind-the-scenes look into codebreaking and the hidden side of war. This is a tale from the inside by one of the few surviving protagonists and goes into unprecedented detail about the mechanics of the enigma machines and how their encipherment was achieved.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dialogue
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906447012
• ISBN 13: 9781906447014
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible