ENIGMA MACHINE AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OF WORLD WAR TWO

The following are a small selection of titles on this subject to complement our information sheet.

•   BEESLEY, P.  Very special intelligence: the story of the Admiralty's operational intelligence centre 1939-1945. 2nd ed. London: Greenhill, 2000 ISBN: 1853673986

•  CONNEL, G. G.  Fighting destroyer: the story of HMS Petard   Abingdon: Purnell Book Services, 1976

•  DEACON, R. The silent war: a history of western naval intelligence   Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1978   ISBN 0715375571

•  EWING, A. W.  The man of room 40: the life of Sir Alfred Ewing   London: Hutchinson, 1939

•  HARPER, S.  Capturing Enigma: how HMS Petard seized the German naval codes London: Sutton, 1999 ISBN 0750923164

•   KAHN, D.  Seizing the Enigma: the race to break the German u-boat codes, 1939-1943    London: Souvenir, 1991   ISBN 0285630660

•   SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, H.  Engima: the battle for the code. London: Phoenix, 2000  ISBN: 0753811308

•   SMITH, M   Station X: the codebreakers of Bletchley Park. London: Channel 4 Books, 1998   ISBN:  0752221892

These books may be stocked by your local public library or may be made available through the inter-library lending service. Please enquire at your local branch.

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