SIGINT (eBook)

Peter Matthews (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
160 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9301-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War. In the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result, signallers and cryptographers in the Admiralty's famous Room 40 paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global signals intelligence during the world wars through original interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US and Russian cryptographers. 'SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature.' - The St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2014

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Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz, Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory and defeat during the First and Second World War. In the First World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result, signallers and cryptographers in the Admiralty's famous Room 40 paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global signals intelligence during the world wars through original interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US and Russian cryptographers. "e;SIGINT is a fascinating account of what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the literature."e; - The St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2014

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Espionage
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Admiralty • American • Analyse • Bletchley Park • British • Churchill • codebreakers • Codes • Communication • cryptographers • de-code • Enigma • First World War • First World War, Second World War, WWI, World War One, World War I, The Great War, intelligence, SIGINT, MORSE, ENIGMA, ULTRA, PURPLE, Room 40, Bletchley Park, signals, Signals Intelligence, Churchill, codebreakers, cryptographers, British, Russian, American, communication, network, operatives • Intelligence • intelligence, SIGINT, MORSE, ENIGMA, ULTRA, PURPLE, Room 40, Bletchley Park, Signals Intelligence, Churchill, codebreakers, cryptographers, British, Russian, American, communication, network, operatives, first world war, second world war, world war one, world war two, world war i, world war ii, • Japan • Japan|codes • Messages • Morse • Network • Operatives • operatives|spies • Purple • Room 40 • Russian • Second World War • SIGINT • Signals • signals intelligence • |spies • spies, spying, de-code, analyse, messages, Admiralty, Japan • spies, spying, de-code, analyse, messages, Admiralty, Japan, codes • spies, spying, de-code, analyse, messages, Admiralty, Japan, codes, the secret history of signals intelligence in the world wars, world war 1, world war 2, wwi, wwii, ww1, ww2 • spying • The Great War • the secret history of signals intelligence in the world wars • Ultra • World War 1 • World War 2 • World War I • World War II • World War One • World War Two • WW1 • ww2 • wwi • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9301-9 / 0752493019
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9301-5 / 9780752493015