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SEBAG-MONTEFIORE**, HUGH: : ENIGMA: THE BATTLE FOR THE CODE. **

LONDON.THE FOLIO SOCIETY,2008.

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UK,8vo HB+s/case,1st edn,4th printing.[Originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London),in 2000.A revised edn followed in 2001, published by Phoenix/Orion (London).The text of this FS edn follows that of the revised edition,with some minor emendations.]MINT/FINE+. No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - issued in s/case. Bright,crisp,clean,black paper-covered card slipcase; with negligible shelf-wear - if any at all - to edges and corners.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original grey cloth boards blocked in Enigma machine letter keys in red and/or black with silver edging and black or silver letters within - black on red keys,silver on black keys,to upper board,the rear board plain and undecorated.Title spelt in similar, vertical design to spine/backstrip,author+ publisher's colophon in bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt,a red+grey striped headband,and immaculate silvered grey endpapers.Top+fore-edge bright, clean and pristine; contents bright, tight,clean and pristine too - unread.UK,8vo HB+ s/case,1st edn,4th printing,vi-xxviipp+2-455pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,author's separate introduction+ acknowledgements,a prologue,26 chapters,20pp contemporary b/w photographs in 5 blocks of 4pp apiece,between pp44/5,pp76/7,pp108/9,pp156/7,and pp268/9 respectively,an epilogue,a chronology,a glossary,appendices (6),notes, a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w photographic frntis (of an Enigma machine),a title page,a dedication,and 4pp blanks at rear.Typeset in Plantin at The Folio Society.Printed on Abbey Wove paper by St Edmundsbury Press,Bury St Edmonds.Bound by Hunter & Foul,Edinburgh,in full blocked cloth. The following 2 alpha-numerical, sequential book ID's (i.e. rja527015 and rja527115) are UNIFORM in style and appearance. That a crucial role was played by Bletchley Park on the outcome of WWII by the breaking of Germany’s secret codes is well known,but as the author points out that success was not just down to brilliant mathematicians and professors such as Alan Turing and Harry Hinsley.A far wider group of individuals contributed to the story, including Hans Thilo Schmidt,the German who gave the Allies the first clues on how to break Enigma; and Lt. Tony Fasson R.N.,who captured Enigma codebooks from a German U-boat - one of many heroic but hitherto unknown British and American sailors without whose bravery Enigma would never have been broken.These sailors risked,and sometimes lost,their lives snatching enemy codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and U-boats. Using new material from British and US archives,and interviews with some of the last surviving players in the Enigma saga,the author tells the true story of how the Naval Enigma code was broken.Includes new material on the controversy surrounding the sinking of the SCHARNHORST.Was it brilliant British seamanship or the work of Norwegian secret agents? So,breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park.There was another aspect of the story,of which it is only now, possible to tell.It takes in the exploits of spies,naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked,and in some cases lost,their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from sinking German ships and submarines.This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma.The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable. The author was inspired to write the book after Robert Harris's novel 'Enigma',and the West End production,and TV adaptation,of Hugh Whitemore's play 'Breaking the Code'.These two dramas,which are both based on what happened at Bletchley Park during WW2,not only fascinated him,but help popularise the Engima story,and showed that there was a market for more books on the subject. The Folio Society’s formula for success is publishing books with exceptional typography,illustrations, paper and bindings.The Society sources new introductions from literary experts to accompany classic texts and uses skilled designers and master printers to produce memorable fine books.Fiction and non-fiction titles are published.The Folio Society also prides itself on producing series of an author's works which regular publishers might not think economic - in several cases it is only possible to acquire forgotten books by major writers in Folio Society editions. 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UK,8vo HB+s/case,1st edn,4th printing.
Not SIGNED.

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