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Geniuses at WarDavid A. Price

Geniuses at War

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"Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that could…

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  • Other · English · 2021
    Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A. · 243 pages · 9780525521549
World historyCryptographyHistoryLorenz cipher systemWorld War, 1939-1945Electronic intelligence