Research Catalog

Title

The Third Reich is listening : inside German codebreaking 1939-45 / Christian Jennings.

Author

Jennings, Christian

Publication

• Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Osprey Publishing, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel, German intelligence agencies were hard at work breaking British and Allied codes. The Third Reich is Listening is a gripping blend of modern history and science, and describes the successes and failures of Germany's codebreaking and signals intelligence operations from 1935 to 1945. The first mainstream book that takes an in-depth look at German cryptanalysis in World War II, it tells how the Third Reich broke the ciphers of Allied and neutral countries, including Great Britain, France, Russia and Switzerland.This book offers a dramatic new perspective on one of the biggest stories of World War II, using declassified archive material and colourful personal accounts from the Germans at the heart of the story, including a former astronomer who worked out the British order of battle in 1940, a U-Boat commander on the front line of the Battle of the Atlantic, and the German cryptanalyst who broke into and read crucial codes of the British Royal Navy."--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

Inside German codebreaking 1939-45.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 > Military intelligence
• HISTORY > World
• Cryptography
• Military intelligence
• Germany

Genre/Form

• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives.
• Récits personnels.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-341) and index.

Contents

Germany ascendant. Losing the signals intelligence battle in World War I -- The Enigma salesman -- Germany's new codebreakers -- Preparing for war -- The Kriegsmarine starts listening -- Germany offensive. Two navies at the outbreak of war -- Romanian codes and Romanian oil -- Signals and deception in the invasion of Europe -- Fighting the war in the air -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Classical enemies, modern codebreaking -- Germany at war. Germany's Mediterranean battles -- Losing Enigma -- The good colonel -- Signals intelligence and cryptanalysis on the Russian Front -- The enigmatic Swiss -- Rhubarb and rodeo -- U-91 and the Battle of the Atlantic -- Germany defensive. The Battle of the Aegean -- Insecure Enigma -- The coming storm -- Execution and capture -- The collapse of the Third Reich -- The man with the key has gone -- Epilogue: What became of the characters after the war -- Conclusion -- Chronology.

ISBN

• 9781472829504
• 1472829506
• 9781472829511 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472829528 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1060594097
• 1060594097
• SCSB-9585606

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library