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the complete story of codebreaking in World War II

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August 6, 2021 | History
An edition of Battle of wits (2000)

Battle of wits

the complete story of codebreaking in World War II

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Drawing from newly declassified documents, the author chronicles the story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
436

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Cover of: Battle of Wits
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
April 2, 2002, Free Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: La guerra dei codici
2002, Garzanti
Paperback in Italian
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II
2002, Simon & Schuster
in English - 1st Touchstone ed.
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II
2000, Free Press
in English
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II
2000, Free Press
in English
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II
2000, Viking
in English
Cover of: Battle of wits
Battle of wits: the complete story of codebreaking in World War II
2000, Free Press
in English

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.548641
Library of Congress
D810.C88 B83 2000b

The Physical Object

Pagination
436 pages
Number of pages
436

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32357913M
Internet Archive
battleofwitscomp0000budi
ISBN 10
0670884928
ISBN 13
9780670884926
OCLC/WorldCat
44533017

Work Description

A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in January 1945, this is an astonishing epic of a war that was won not simply by brute strength but also by reading the enemy's intentions.
The revelations of Stephen Budiansky's dramatic history include how Britain tried to manipulate the American codebreakers and monopolize German Enigma code communications; the first detailed published explanations of how the Japanese codes were broken; and how the American codebreaking machines worked to crack the Japanese, the German, and even the Russian diplomatic codes. The compelling narrative shows the crucial effect codebreaking had on the battlefields by explaining the urgency of stopping the wolf pack U-boat attacks in the North Atlantic, the importance of halting Rommel's tanks in North Africa, and the necessity of ensuring that the Germans believed the Allies' audacious deception and cover plans for D-Day. Unveiled for the first time, the complete story of codebreaking in World War II has now been told.

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