Lorenz

Lorenz

by Jerry Roberts
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/03/2017

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The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War and highlights the crucial work of the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, which prevented Britain's certain defeat in 1941. But there was another German cipher machine, used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top generals in the field. A machine more complex and secure than Enigma. A machine that could never be broken. For sixty years, no one knew about Lorenz or 'Tunny', or the determined group of men who finally broke the code and thus changed the course of the war. Many of them went to their deaths without anyone knowing of their achievements. Here, for the first time, senior codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts tells the complete story of this extraordinary feat of intellect and of his struggle to get his wartime colleagues the recognition they deserve. The work carried out at Bletchley Park during the war to partially automate the process of breaking Lorenz, which had previously been done entirely by hand, was groundbreaking and is recognised as having kick-started the modern computer age.

ISBN:
9780750982047
9780750982047
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
The History Press
Jerry Roberts

Jerry Roberts MBE was the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreaker until his death in 2014.

A talented linguist and recruited as a German speaker, he worked at Bletchley Park on the Lorenz machine for four years and was part of a small but dedicated team of codebreakers that included Tommy Flowers and Bill Tutte.

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