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Hardcover The Secret in Building 26: The Untold Story of America's Ultra War Against the U-Boat Enigma Codes Book

ISBN: 0375508074

ISBN13: 9780375508073

The Secret in Building 26: The Untold Story of How America Broke the Final U-boat Enigma Code

For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-masters Much has been written about the success of the British "Ultra" program in cracking the Germans' Enigma code early in World War II, but few know what really happened in 1942, when the Germans added a fourth rotor to the machine that created the already challenging naval code and plunged Allied intelligence into darkness. Enter one Joe Desch, an unassuming but brilliant engineer at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, who was given the task of creating a machine to break the new Enigma settings. It was an enterprise that rivaled the Manhattan Project for secrecy and complexity-and nearly drove Desch to a breakdown. Under enormous pressure, he succeeded in creating a 5,000-pound electromechanical monster known as the Desch Bombe, which helped turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic-but not before a disgruntled co-worker attempted to leak information about the machine to the Nazis. After toiling anonymously-it even took his daughter years to learn of his accomplishments-Desch was awarded the National Medal of Merit, the country's highest civilian honor. In "The""Secret in Building 26," the entire thrilling story of the final triumph over Enigma is finally told. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Building 26

A good read that informs the reader of the other, american contribution to codebreaking in WW II

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The Codebreakers of Dayton, Ohio

Until now too little has been said about the contributions of Americans towards decrypting either German ?Enigma? or Japanese ?Purple? ciphers. From 1941 until the end of the war the Americans and British collaborated ? in a sometimes prickly relationship ? with the desperate task of deciphering the messages sent between German U-boats in the North Atlantic and Grossadmiral Karl D?nitz, commander-in-chief of the German Navy...

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