17 JUNE 2000, Page 46

SPECTATOR BOOK OF TIIE WEEK

Enigma

by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

It is now well known that the breaking of the German Enigma code played a crucial role in the outcome of the Second World War. To break Enigma, the codebreakers had to rely on the daring exploits of secret agents, naval officers and ordinary seamen who risked their lives snatching 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 tells the true story of how the Naval Enigma was broken.

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