Battle of wits : the complete story of codebreaking in World War II / Stephen Budiansky.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Midway
- "No good, not even for intelligence": The end of the black chamber ; William F. Friedman picks up the pieces ; "I had the good sense to get out of it!" ; Room 40 ; Winston Churchill, an early convert ; The foreign office, a late convert ; The Soviet intercepts ; A strategic failure for intelligence
- Nature of the beast: The birth of codebreaking ; Machine ciphers, Poland, and the Enigma ; Depth reading ; The distinct limitations of thievery ; Solving the Red machine
- "Il y a du nouveau": 1939, a dark new year ; Meeting at Pyry Forest ; Marian Rejewski's mathematical feat ; Recovering the daily Enigma keys ; Alan Turing and other "men of the professor type" ; Bletchley Park ; The Poles' flight
- Fighting back: British mathematicians vs. the Enigma ; The bombe takes shape ; "A pile of dull, disjointed, and enigmatic scraps" ; Cryptanalytic talent ; Norway and yellow ; France and red ; HMS Glorious
- Impossible problems: The sinking of U-33 ; Naval Enigma and the bombe ; Operation Ruthless and other straws ; American isolationism ; Purple ; The British charm offensive ; A mission to Bletchley, bearing gifts
- Success breeds success: The blitz ; Cape Matapan ; Boniface, Barbarossa, and Bismarck ; Naval Enigma, U-110, and the trawler pinches ; The eastern front and German atrocities ; Trafalgar day ; Cribs and continuity
- The machines: The British make polite noises ; IBM machines and JN-25 ; The machine attack on Floradora ; Washington at war ; Military vs. civilians ; An American ultimatum ; Better bombes ; High-speed analyzers
- Paranoia is our profession: Dönitz's suspicions ; The evacuation of Corregidor ; The Midway leak ; Some bungled operations ; "Do not talk at meals" ; Suspicions among friends
- The shadow war: Calling the shots in the Mediterranean ; Torch and deception ; The flight from Vichy ; Atlantic convoys ; U-559 and the breaking of Shark ; The hunt for leaks ; The American invasion ; Pressures and diversions ; Women in uniform
- Command of the ether: Russian espionage and Project Venona ; GEE and fish ; Masters of deception ; Yamamoto ; The water transport code ; Failure in the Ardennes ; Signaling the end
- Epilogue : Legacy.