Colossus : Bletchley Park's greatest secret /: Bletchley Park's greatest secret. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Gannon.
• Other Names: Gannon, Paul
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; A Word about Words; Introduction; Part One -- Interception; 1 Wireless War One; 2 Codes and Ciphers; 3 Between the Wars; 4 Wireless War Two; 5 A Window on a War; 6 NoMo; 7 'If the Wind Meets it'; 8 Knockholt; Part Two -- Decryption; 9 'Hqibpexezmug'; 10 Fishing the Depths; 11 Herring and the Cat's Whiskers; 12 'Hier ist so traurig'; 13 Making the Difference; 14 The Robinson Family; 15 Inventing the Electronic Computing Machine; 16 'Colossus Arrives Today'; 17 Fish Dialects; 18 Fish -- Landing the Catch; 19 A Day in the Life of Fish I. 20 A Day in the Life of Fish II21 The Technology and Organization of Fish; 22 Transatlantic Fisheries; 23 Siginstitutionalization; 24 Colossus -- The Legacy; Epilogue; Part Three -- Appendices; A The Baudot. Code with Shift Function; B The Vernam Cipher; C Extended Example of 'The First Break'; D Structure of the Lorenz Schluesselzusatzgeraet SZ40/42; E The Delta Techique; F Robinson: Block Diagram of Major Function Units; G Non-machine Problems Identified During the Heath Robinson Period; H Basic Functional Sub-systems of Colossus; I Annotated Printout of Colossus 3 run 23/10/44 (Stickleback). J Colossus 'Processing Tree'K Sturgeon and Thrasher; L Bream Message Types and Examples -- Early 1944; M Some Jellyfish Messages from May and June 1944; N Cribs Used on Dragon; O Whiting Decode, 5 February 1945; P 'Hitler as seen by Source'; Q Newmanry Staffing; A Note on Sources; Notes; Further Reading; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Atlantic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (806 pages)
• Subjects: 940.548641; HISTORY / Social History; Lorenz cipher system; World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence -- Great Britain; Cryptography -- Germany -- History; Cryptography -- Great Britain -- History; World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography; Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England); World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence -- Great Britain; HISTORY -- Military -- World War II; Cryptography; Electronic intelligence; Lorenz cipher system; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Military / Strategy; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Europe / General; Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England); England -- Milton Keynes -- Bletchley Park; Germany; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782394020; 1782394028
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed January 27, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.