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Product Identifiers
PublisherBiteback Publishing
ISBN-101785901788
ISBN-139781785901782
eBay Product ID (ePID)234932332
Product Key Features
Book TitleDilly : the Man Who Broke Enigma
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicMilitary / World War II, Espionage, Europe / Great Britain / General
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, History
AuthorMavis Batey
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal940.548641
Table Of ContentForeword ix Acknowledgements xvi Preface xvii Chronology of events xix 1. The making of a codebreaker 1 2. Room 40 13 3. Alice in ID25 31 4. Between the wars 41 5. Enigma 56 6. The Warsaw conference 73 7. Bletchley Park as war station 85 8. Dilly's girls 105 9. The Battle of Matapan 118 10. Dilly and the Spy Enigma 131 11. Dilly's 'personal scouts' 143 12. Farewell 160 Appendices Introduction to the Appendices 1. 'SECRET: Directions for Use of Keys for the Enigma I Cipher Machine' 170 2. 'Rodding' 174 3. 'Buttoning-up' 189 4. Report on the 'Lobster Enigma' 206 5. Abwehr and SD cipher machines attacked by the ISK section 210 Glossary 215 Notes 223 Index 236
SynopsisThe highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes of the two world wars. During the first, he was the chief codebreaker in the Admiralty, breaking the German navy's main flag code, before going on to crack the German Enigma ciphers during the Second World War at Bletchley Park. It was at Bletchley that Dilly enjoyed the triumphant culmination of his life's work: a reconstruction of the Enigma machine used by the Abwehr, the German Secret Service. This ensured that the British were fully aware of what the German commanders knew about the Allied plans for the invasion of Europe, allowing MI5 and MI6 to use captured German spies to feed false information back to the Nazi spymasters. Dilly's codebreaking skills played a vital part in the deception operation that ensured the success of the D-Day landings. Knox, however, did not live to see the fruits of his work, sadly dying of cancer in 1943., The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British code-breaking successes of the two world wars. Mavis Batey, who worked for Knox at Bletchley Park, reveals the vital part Dilly played in the deception operation that ensured the success of the D-Day landings, altering the course of the Second World War.
LC Classification NumberD810.C88
