The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
by Welchman, Gordon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0070691800
- ISBN 13
- 9780070691803
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About This Item
USA: McGraw - Hill. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0070691800 . pp. ix, 326. Index. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of photos. Diagrams. "Now, for the first time, the insider's view of the Enigma story and other clandestine operations is revealed by Gordon Welchman, a top British mathematician who was largely responsible for the crucial achievements at Bletchley Park in the first months of WWII. Goes beyond Bletchley to show how the lessons learned from Germany's errors in using the Enigma codes can - and must - be applied to the use of military communications today." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in Brodart. A quality copy of this essential cryptographic chronicle. Enser p.75.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; World War 1939-1945 - cryptography, Secret Service - Great Britain, Personal Narratives, Codes and Ciphers, ultra, Enigma, Gordon Welchman, Charles Babbage, Dennis Babbage, Bletchley Park, Guderian, Scherbius Enigma, Steckerboard, Herivel Square, Turing B .
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 337h5496
- Title
- The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
- Author
- Welchman, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070691800
- ISBN 13
- 9780070691803
- Publisher
- McGraw - Hill
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0070691800, World War 1939-1945 - Cryptography, Secret Service - Great Britain, Personal Narratives, Codes And Ciphers, Ultra, Enigma, Gordon Welchman, Charles Babbage, Dennis Babbage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Covert Operations; Science & Technology;
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