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Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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Enigma: The Battle for the Code
Автор: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20082007-04-07
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Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked — and passed on to the British — the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
Автор: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 744 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092009-10-27
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The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and on the beaches. The evacuation would never have succeeded had it not been for the tenacity of the British soldiers who stayed behind to ensure they got away. Men like Sergeant Major Gus Jennings who died smothering a German stick bomb in the church at Esquelbecq in an effort to save his comrades, and Captain Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC who single-handedly held back a German attack on the Dunkirk perimeter thereby allowing the British line to form up behind him. Told to stand and fight to the last man, these brave few battalions fought in whatever manner they could to buy precious time for the evacuation. Outnumbered and outgunned, they launched spectacular and heroic attacks time and again, despite ferocious fighting and the knowledge that for many only capture or death would end their struggle.
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