Cribs for Victory

The Untold Story of Bletchley Park's Secret Room

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2011
Polperro Heritage Press (Verlag)
978-0-9559541-8-4 (ISBN)

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Cribs For Victory is a posthumous account of the secret code-breaking process in Bletchley Park's Fusion Room during World War II by Major Neil Webster, one of the key members of the team involved. The Fusion Room was the central unit where decrypted German messages obtained from Hut 6 were compared with the corresponding data extracted by the log readers from the daily radio traffic between enemy stations, thus enabling a complete wartime picture of the enemy order of battle to be constructed. Neil Webster's liaison role between traffic analysis and cryptography meant he was centrally involved in the search for 'cribs' - short pieces of enciphered text where the meaning is either known or can be guessed, allowing the whole cipher to be broken. His book describes this intensive search in detail, the intellectual and technical challenge, the personal stories, the setbacks and the triumphs. Security clearance for publication of his first-hand account was only granted in 2010, more than 20 years after his death. Was it too close to the real truth about how Enigma was broken and the inner workings of British intelligence?
Webster's daughter, Joss Pearson, believes her father's book was just too clear, both about the relationship between signals intelligence and cryptography, and about the habits of the German military mind that opened the door to understanding Enigma.

Joss Pearson, Neil Webster's daughter, is known in the publishing world as founder of Gaia Books, the international co-edition publishing house, famous for such books as The Gaia Atlas of Planet Management, The Natural House Book and Sivananda Companion to Yoga. An Oxford scholar, she has worked in publishing all her life. She is married and has two daughters and divides her time between London and Gloucestershire.

Foreword Part ICribs For Victory:Introduction The London Scottish Caxton Street and Bolitho's Angels Harpenden and Beaumanor Bletchley: The Scene The Cryptographic Background Helping The Cryptographers Contributions To Intelligence Co-operation With The Russians The End Of The Affair Part IIAbout Neil Webster The War Letters Part IIIFusion Room Confusion Preparations for D-Day Programme From Fusion To SIXTA Appendix:Glossary Bibliography Author's Acknowledgements Joss Pearson Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2011
Zusatzinfo	16pp b/w
Verlagsort	Clifton-upon-Teme
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 238 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-9559541-8-5 / 0955954185
ISBN-13	978-0-9559541-8-4 / 9780955954184
Zustand	Neuware