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Voices of the Code Breakers Michael Paterson

Voices of the Code Breakers By Michael Paterson

Voices of the Code Breakers by Michael Paterson


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Summary

Offers a look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers. This book includes a glimpse of the early history of the computer - its uses and subsequent development.

Voices of the Code Breakers Summary

Voices of the Code Breakers: Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II by Michael Paterson

This title offers a comprehensive look at the undercover war, revealing just how much of WWII was won away from the battlefields and how each side desperately tried to get into the 'mind set' of their enemies' code makers.From the British cryptologists to the Navajo Indians whose codes helped win the war against Japan, this book reveals the stories of extraordinary people and their chance finds, lucky accidents, dogged determination and moments of sheer brilliance, to expose how the war was really won.It includes an intriguing glimpse of the early history of the computer - its spectacular uses and subsequent development. It features vivid first-hand accounts from the staff of Bletchley Park, French and Dutch resistance fighters, the American secret agents and members of the Services Liaison Unit who passed on vital coded information to field commanders. It also includes a 16 page plate section with rare archive photographs.

About Michael Paterson

Michael Paterson is a military historian, researcher, writer and illustrator who began his career on the military magazine Battlefield Review. He is the author of Battle for the Skies, Winston Churchill: His Military Life 1895-1945, and was a key researcher on Voices from D-Day.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; 1 Codes and War; 2 Bletchley Park; 3 1940: A Fateful Year; 4 Battle of the Atlantic; 5 North Africa and Italy; 6 The Resistance; 7 Towards Victory in Europe; 8 War in the Pacific; Chronology; Bibliography and Sources; Index; Acknowledgments; Picture Credits.

Additional information

GOR001697992
9780715327197
0715327194
Voices of the Code Breakers: Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II by Michael Paterson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
David & Charles
20080328
368
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