The Third Reich is Listening by Christian Jennings - ISBN: 9781472829542
Paperback
Germany’s hidden war: breaking Allied codes in World War II.

The Third Reich is Listening

Inside German codebreaking 1939–45

  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    19 November 2019

Summary

Drawing on recently declassified documents, and now available in paperback, this is the utterly compelling history of the successes and failures of the German Intelligence Services throughout World War II.

The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472829542
ISBN-10:1472829549
Author:Christian Jennings
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Osprey Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:19 November 2019
Weight:619g
Dimensions:234mm x 154mm x 34mm
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Critics Review

This gem of a book delves deep into the murky world of codebreaking during the last war, highlighting how the Germans intercepted and decoded Allied signals. Superbly written and researched, it charts not only how cryptanalysts went about their work, but also its impact on the war – from each side’s perspective – and how the intelligence was used. * Britain at War *
Editor’s Choice * The Armourer, April 2019 *

About The Author

Christian Jennings

Christian Jennings is a British freelance foreign correspondent and the author of six works of non-fiction. Since 1988, across twenty-three countries, he has been an author and journalist on international current affairs, modern history and popular science for publications ranging from The Economist and Reuters to Wired, The Guardian, and The Scotsman. He has been based variously in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Burundi, Kenya and Switzerland. His recent book At War on the Gothic Line (Osprey, 2016), was described in The Spectator as ‘military history at its most engaging’. He lives in Turin, Italy.

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