Code Wars: How 'Ultra' and 'Magic' Led to Allied Victory
Code Wars: How 'Ultra' and 'Magic' Led to Allied Victory
Pen & Sword | 2011 | 224 pages | ISBN: 1848845103 | ePub (e-book) | 2.5 MB
When the top secret codebreaking activities at Bletchley Park were revealed in the 1970s, much of the history of the Second World War had to be rewritten. Code Wars examines the role of ULTRA (the intelligence derived from breaking secret enemy signals) on major events of the Second World War. It examines how it influenced the outcome of key battles such as D-Day, El Alamein, Crete, key naval battles, the controversy surrounding Churchill and Coventry, the shadowing of Hitler's V1 pilotless aircraft and the V2 rocket.