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This book is the enthralling story of the extraordinary band of amateurs in Room 40 - university professors, clergymen, naval schoolmasters, stockbrokers, and bankers - who captured all the German naval codes before the end of 1914 and of how they read them and their replacements over the next four...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beesly, Patrick, 1913-1986 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Naval Intelligence Division. > Room 40.
Great Britain. > Naval Intelligence Division. > Room 40
World War, 1914-1918 > Cryptography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Secret service > Great Britain.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Cryptographie.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Service secret > Grande-Bretagne.
Cryptography
Secret service
Great Britain
Marine
Geheimdienst
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Großbritannien
World War, 1914-1918 > Cryptography
World War, 1914-1918 > Naval operations, British
World War, 1914-1918 > Secret service > Great Britain
Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
1914-1918
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Summary:This book is the enthralling story of the extraordinary band of amateurs in Room 40 - university professors, clergymen, naval schoolmasters, stockbrokers, and bankers - who captured all the German naval codes before the end of 1914 and of how they read them and their replacements over the next four years.
Physical Description:xi, 338 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index.
ISBN:0151786348
9780151786343