X, Y and Z
The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
$40.78
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2021
Summary
The untold story of the events which drove to the Enigma code-breaking, and the men who made it possible. Everyone ‘knows’ that the Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park, but what led up to that, and what became of the Polish mathematicians who laid the basis for the code-breaking, is shrouded in myth and mystery. X, Y & Z is the story of how secret French, Polish and British intelligence services came together to unravel the Enigma machine during the Second World War. It is also the story of how the code-breakers from Poland continued their work in Vichy France and, while being chased across all Europe, protected the greatest secret of the war, at the cost of their lives. AUTHOR: Dermot Turing is the nephew of Alan Turing, and an expert in Second World War code-breaking, as well as a member of the Bletchley Park’s Historical Advisory Group and of the Organising committee of HistoCript. He is also the author of the acclaimed Prof: Alan Turing Decoded (2015). He lives in St Albans. 30 b/w illustrations
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780750993937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0750993936 |
| Author: | Dermot Turing, Arkady Rzegocki |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“A remarkable tale of intellect, bravery and camaraderie that reads like a nail-biting spy novel.”– Nature.com
“A great book filling out our picture of Second World War code-breaking. His prose crackles with energy and an appealing sense of humor, enhanced by dozens of photographs, many of which will be new even to devoted students of his subject.”
– “Michigan War Studies Review”“A remarkable tale of intellect, bravery and camaraderie that reads like a nail-biting spy novel.”
– “Nature.com”“A remarkable tale of intellect, bravery and camaraderie that reads like a nail-biting spy novel.”–Nature.com
Dermot Turing
DERMOT TURING is the author of X, Y and Z: the Real Story of how Enigma Was Broken; Alan Turing Decoded; and Enigma Traitors, which reveals the inadequacies of Allied codes during the Second World War. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law. He is a trustee of The National Museum of Computing and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. Dermot is married with two sons and lives in Kippen in Stirlingshire.
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