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Before Bletchley Park - The Codebreakers of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Before Bletchley Park - The Codebreakers of the First World War (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second
World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First
World War - Room 40 & MI1(b) - remain in the shadows, despite
their involvement in and influence on most of the major events of
that war. From the First Battle of the Marne, the shelling of
Scarborough, the battles of Jutland and the Somme in 1916, to the
battles on the Western Front in 1918, the German naval mutiny and
the Zimmermann Telegram, this cast of characters - several of them
as eccentric as anyone from Bletchley Park in the Second World War
- secretly guided the outcome of the 'Great War' from the confines
of a few smoke-filled rooms. Using hundreds of intercepted and
decrypted German military, naval and diplomatic messages,
bestselling author Paul Gannon reveals the fascinating story of
British codebreaking operations. By drawing on many newly
discovered archival documents that challenge misleading stories
about Room 40 & MI1(b), he reveals a sophisticated machine in
operation.
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