Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency
Autor John Ferrisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526605467
ISBN-10: 1526605465
Pagini: 848
Ilustrații: 2x8 mono plate sections; 1x8 colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 54 mm
Greutate: 0.99 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526605465
Pagini: 848
Ilustrații: 2x8 mono plate sections; 1x8 colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 54 mm
Greutate: 0.99 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Asthe
first
and
only
authorised
historyof
one
of
Britain's
most
important
but
least
understood
institutions,
the
release
of
this
book
will
bea
national
publishing
moment-
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
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Canada.
He
is
Professor
of
History
at
the
University
of
Calgary,
an
Honorary
Professor
at
the
Department
of
International
Politics
of
the
University
of
Aberystwyth,
and
the
Department
of
Law
and
Politics,
Brunel
University,
and
is
an
Associate
Member
of
Nuffield
College,
Oxford.
He
has
written
or
edited
eight
books
and
over
100
articles
or
chapters
on
diplomatic,
intelligence,
imperial,
international,
military
and
strategic
history,
and
strategic
studies.
He
lives
in
Calgary.
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