X, Y & Z: the real story of how Enigma was broken

✍ Scribed by Dermot Turing

• Book ID: 100266193
• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0750987820

✦ Synopsis

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...|December, 1932In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents – operating instructions of the cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lay the foundations for the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. The co-operation between France, Britain and Poland is given the cover name 'X, Y & Z'. December, 1942It is the middle of World War II. The Polish...