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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky (Hardcover, 2000)
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Based on newly declassified documents, this is the first complete story of Allied code-breaking in World War II - the compelling tale of codebreaking's golden age. In 1939 cryptoanalysis was in its infancy, its practitioners' skills rudimentary and untried. The codebreakers faced huge barriers of official indifference and - from the military bureaucracy - even contempt for their work. Yet during the course of the war these men and women accomplished extraordinary feats of mathematical wizardry that turned the tide of many critical battles. New Stephen Budiansky tells their story. From the fight against the Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic, to the climactic showdown against Yamamoto's aircraft carriers at Midway, and the success of the D-Day invasion, Battle of Wits reveals the shadow war that lay behind the famous events of World War II, and breathes life into unsung heroes whose work has been wrapped in secrecy for decades. Drawing on literally thousands of previously unseen files, Budiansky provides lucid explanations of how the most impenetrable of Axis codes were actually broken - including the German ENIGMA and Japanese Purple machines - and traces the origins of the top-secret project, codenamed VENONA, that broke the Soviet spy codes in one of the most incredible cryptoanalytic feats of all time.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-139780670884926
eBay Product ID (ePID)94527474
Product Key Features
Number of Pages448 Pages
Publication NameBattle of Wits: the Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, Computer Science, History
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen Budiansky
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height242 mm
Item Weight852 g
Item Width165 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorStephen Budiansky
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