ENIGMA: The Battle For The Code.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Stated 2nd imp.] No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy montaged monochrome cityscape photo graphs and similar monochrome Enigma machine keys spelling out ENIGMA to front panel of dw/dj with capitalised white lettered remainder of title and red-lettered aithor's name,black spine/backstrip with thumbnail monochrome photograph repeatred from front panel and with capitralised red+white lettering, rear panel with monochrome cityscape skyline and superimposed white lettered blurb of content's revelations; with negligible shelf-wear to lower edges and corners - all corner tips very minisculely rubbed with reciprocal colour loss - top edges with light,minimal bumping or creases and a tiny,single snick at head of spine - no other nicks,tears or splits present,and some minimal,superficial scoring to each panel. Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean with minimal blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate,plain dark brown endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+1-403pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus list/tables,acknowledgements,author's introduction,a Prologue,26 chapters and an Epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp180/81,b/w diagrams,a Chronology,appendices (1-6),Notes,a bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page with dedication to its reverse,verso of last page blank and un-numbered.
Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age. It is only the exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading - particularly for the dw/dj.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness.
It is now well known that the breaking of the German Enigma code played a crucial part in the outcome of WW2.Churchill referred to the Bletchley Park codebreakers as the geese that laid golden eggs and never cackled. But breaking Enigma was not just about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park.Bletchley's codebreaking stars such as Alan Turing and Harry Hinsley certainly made an outstanding contribution.But a much wider group was also involved: men such as Hans Thilo Schmidt,the German who gave the Allies their first clues on how to break Enigma,and Lieutenant Tony Farson,who captured Enigma codebooks from a German U-boat - one of many heroic but hitherto ubknown British and American sailors without whose bravery Enigma would never have been broken.
To break Enigma,and particularly the all important Naval Enigma code,the codebreakers had to rely on the daring exploits of secret agents and spies,naval officers and ordinary seamen who risked,and in some cases lost,their lives snatching the Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. Using new material from British and American archives, and interviews with some of the last surviving witnesses to the Enigma saga,Hugh Sebag-Montefiore can at last tell the true story of how the Naval Enigma code was broken.
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