Behind the Enigma
Autor John Ferrisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781635574654
ISBN-10: 163557465X
Pagini: 848
Dimensiuni: 161 x 238 x 54 mm
Greutate: 1.45 kg
Editura: Omega Publications
ISBN-10: 163557465X
Pagini: 848
Dimensiuni: 161 x 238 x 54 mm
Greutate: 1.45 kg
Editura: Omega Publications
Caracteristici
The first and only authorised history of one of Britain's most important but least understood institutions - GCHQ is an organisation shrouded in mystery, dealing with information so sensitive that it was only decades after World War II that the cracking of the enigma code was disclosed to the British public
Notă biografică
John Ferris is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, where he also is a Fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He received a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He has published four books and numerous academic articles on diplomatic, intelligence and military history, as well as contemporary strategy and intelligence.
Recenzii
Fascinating . [Ferris] has rescued several great women codebreakers from obscurity . [Bletchley Park] has become embedded in national myth, but Ferris offers cool and balanced judgment . This monumental work completes the authorised picture of a century of British intelligence, a testament to how far Britain has moved away from the cult of official secrecy
In Ferris we have a shrewd and scrupulous historian . The references to individual people at all levels of the service are many and illuminating . Small details can bring a nod or a smile when one is reading . GCHQ shows it is alert to the role of a security and defence agency in a modern democracy, and Ferris is to be congratulated for shedding so much light upon it
The book is at its best when sifting the role of signal intelligence (Sigint) in the Falklands war and other late imperial conflicts such as Indonesia and Palestine . Comprehensive
GCHQ emerges from the shadows . The story of the codebreakers is in fact a parallel history of the entire twentieth century . There is intriguing detailing of the organisation's structure and systems ... Illuminating ... Absorbing
What happens when a tiny caste, so obsessed with keeping thing hidden that it speaks its own language of Ultra, Venona or Zircon, opens up? . The answer - not withstanding significant restriction on what Ferris was allowed to publish - is a book of revelation . Although he spent months sifting the papers in a high-security Cheltenham vault, [Ferris] does not lose sight of the big picture . There is much in the book that illuminates other aspects of postwar history, from the struggle against the Jewish underground in Palestine to the 1982 Falklands conflict . Today, [Ferris] argues, greater openness about intelligence gathering does not affect its relevance and power. His book is an example of this, and shows that the abandonment of Cold War levels of secrecy about GCHQ benefits us all
There is so much more to this secrecy-shrouded outfit, reveals Canadian historian John Ferris . Fielding formidable research, Ferris tells a global tale of mathematics, engineering, data sciences and linguistics in the service of politics, diplomacy, war and security
[Ferris] has written a deeply learned, comprehensive account of [GCHQ's] achievements and occasional failures
A fascinating tale . It takes us with the codebreakers - mathematicians, linguists, teachers and philosophers and eccentrics - through the ages of radio, telegrams telephone and satellites to the digital present
In Ferris we have a shrewd and scrupulous historian . The references to individual people at all levels of the service are many and illuminating . Small details can bring a nod or a smile when one is reading . GCHQ shows it is alert to the role of a security and defence agency in a modern democracy, and Ferris is to be congratulated for shedding so much light upon it
The book is at its best when sifting the role of signal intelligence (Sigint) in the Falklands war and other late imperial conflicts such as Indonesia and Palestine . Comprehensive
GCHQ emerges from the shadows . The story of the codebreakers is in fact a parallel history of the entire twentieth century . There is intriguing detailing of the organisation's structure and systems ... Illuminating ... Absorbing
What happens when a tiny caste, so obsessed with keeping thing hidden that it speaks its own language of Ultra, Venona or Zircon, opens up? . The answer - not withstanding significant restriction on what Ferris was allowed to publish - is a book of revelation . Although he spent months sifting the papers in a high-security Cheltenham vault, [Ferris] does not lose sight of the big picture . There is much in the book that illuminates other aspects of postwar history, from the struggle against the Jewish underground in Palestine to the 1982 Falklands conflict . Today, [Ferris] argues, greater openness about intelligence gathering does not affect its relevance and power. His book is an example of this, and shows that the abandonment of Cold War levels of secrecy about GCHQ benefits us all
There is so much more to this secrecy-shrouded outfit, reveals Canadian historian John Ferris . Fielding formidable research, Ferris tells a global tale of mathematics, engineering, data sciences and linguistics in the service of politics, diplomacy, war and security
[Ferris] has written a deeply learned, comprehensive account of [GCHQ's] achievements and occasional failures
A fascinating tale . It takes us with the codebreakers - mathematicians, linguists, teachers and philosophers and eccentrics - through the ages of radio, telegrams telephone and satellites to the digital present