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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: The History Press Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780750987820

RRP: £20.00

PAGES: 288

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 3, 2018

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X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken

Dermot Turing

X, Y & Z describes how French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel the Enigma machine. It tells of how, under the very noses of the Germans, Enigma code-breaking continued in Vichy France. And how code-breakers from Poland continued their work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, watching the USSR’s first steps of the Cold War.The people of X, Y and Z were eccentric, colourful and caught up in world events that they could watch not control. This is their story…

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Dermot Turing

Dermot Turing is the author of Prof, the acclaimed biography of Alan Turing. He spent his career in the legal profession after graduating from Cambridge and Oxford, and is a trustee of Bletchley Park. He has extensive knowledge of World War II code-breaking and is a regular presenter at major cryptology events, most recently presenting at the US National Security Agency’s Center for Cryptologic History. He lives in St Albans.