U-Boat Hunters. Code Breakers, Divers & The Defeat Of the U-Boats, 1914-1918
Year: 2003 Language: English Author: Robert M. Grant Genre: History of the Navy Publisher: Periscope Publishing Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 180 Description: In this groundbreaking book, the author explains how the code breakers at the Admiralty's Room 40 were able to break into the German naval codes during the First World War.This was primarily achieved by the collection of cipher information from many different sources. Crashed Zeppelins provided some insight, but wrecked U-boats could offer much more.Royal Navy divers investigated U-boat wrecks around Britain and Ireland and were able to retrieve some extremely valuable intelligence.Aside from giving Room 40 total insight into the workings of U-boat operations, this new intelligence could offer the chance to hunt down and destroy U-boats at sea.This secret war has never been told, but by digging through the radio interception records, telegrams, and the records of the Admiralty Salvage Department, an incredible story emerges.
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U-Boat Hunters. Code Breakers, Divers & The Defeat Of the U-Boats, 1914-1918
Language: English
Author: Robert M. Grant
Genre: History of the Navy
Publisher: Periscope Publishing
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 180
Description: In this groundbreaking book, the author explains how the code breakers at the Admiralty's Room 40 were able to break into the German naval codes during the First World War.This was primarily achieved by the collection of cipher information from many different sources. Crashed Zeppelins provided some insight, but wrecked U-boats could offer much more.Royal Navy divers investigated U-boat wrecks around Britain and Ireland and were able to retrieve some extremely valuable intelligence.Aside from giving Room 40 total insight into the workings of U-boat operations, this new intelligence could offer the chance to hunt down and destroy U-boats at sea.This secret war has never been told, but by digging through the radio interception records, telegrams, and the records of the Admiralty Salvage Department, an incredible story emerges.
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