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Operation Primrose: U110, the Bismarck and the Enigma code breakers by Boyle, David is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Operation Primrose: U110, the Bismarck and the Enigma code breakers about?
It was one of the biggest secrets of the war, the capture of a topsecret Enigma machine from the radio room of the sinking submarine U110.May1941 marked the nadir of the Battle of the Atlantic, as Nazi U-boatattacks were crippling the nation’s ability to survive. And the key tobreaking that threat lay in deciphering the German’s naval Enigma code.Butwhile Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park workedtirelessly to crack the code, the working Enigma machine finallyprovided them with their breakthrough moment. This booksets the story, and the Enigma cryptographers, in context – at the heartof the Battle of the Atlantic, when it reached its crescendo in thepursuit of the battleship Bismarck the week after U110 was taken.
Who reads Operation Primrose: U110, the Bismarck and the Enigma code breakers?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Boyle, David
- Publisher
- Endeavour Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Military History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (172 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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