X Y Z The Real Story Of How Enigma Was Broken I Dermot Turing by Dermot Turing 9780750987820, 0750987820 instant download after payment.

In the bathroom of a Belgian hotel, a French spymaster photographs secret documents – operating instructions of the German cipher machine, Enigma. A few weeks later a mathematician in Warsaw begins to decipher the coded communications of the Third Reich and lay the foundations for the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park. 

The co-operation between France, Britain and Poland is given the cover name ‘X, Y & Z’. 

In December 1942, It is the middle of World War II. 

The Polish code-breakers are in France on the run from the Gestapo. 

People who know the Enigma secret are not supposed to be in the combat zone for fear of capture so MI6 devises a plan to exfiltrate them. If it goes wrong, if they are caught, they could give away the greatest secret of the war. 

X, Y & Z describes how French, British and Polish secret services came together to unravel the Enigma machine. 

It tells of how, under the very noses of the Germans, Enigma code-breaking continued in Vichy France. 

And how code-breakers from Poland continued their work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service, watching the USSR’s first steps into the Cold War. 

The people of X, Y and Z were eccentric, colorful and caught up in world events that they could watch and not control. 

This is their story… 

Dermot Turing is the acclaimed author of Prof, a biography of his famous uncle Alan, The Story of Computing, and most recently X, Y and Z – the real story of how Enigma was broken. He is also a regular speaker at historical and other events. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law.

Dermot Turing – like his celebrated uncle Alan Turing – was educated at Sherborne School and King’s College, Cambridge. After a doing a D.Phil in Genetics at Oxford, he concluded that scientific research was not for him, and moved into the legal profession.

Dermot worked for the Government Legal Service and then the international law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014. His specialism was financial sector regulation, particularly the problems associated with failed banks, and financial market infrastructure.

As well as writing and speaking, Dermot is a trustee of The Turing Trust and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. He continues his interest in the financial world.

Dermot lives in St Albans in Hertfordshire. He is married with two sons, and as well as history his interests include cooking, gardening and opera.