Summary of David A. Price's Geniuses at War

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The United States had two agencies that decoded intercepted communications: one in the army and one in the navy. This arrangement may have made the maximum number of bureaucrats happy, but it sometimes led to counterproductive results.
#2 The Government Code Cypher School was created in 1919 to decode messages between the German government and its agents. It was headed by Denniston, who had never run anything before. He disliked anything to do with bureaucracy and administration, but he was needed to decode the messages.
#3 In the early 1920s, the German military began to build up its army beyond the limit set by the Treaty of Versailles. It built secret flying clubs and sent its officers and crews abroad for training.
#4 Hitler had promised the German military that he would purge the SA, his enforcers, in exchange for their support. In June 1934, the officers began executing SA leaders and others deemed suspect. Hitler claimed that 74 people had been killed, but unofficial estimates were much higher.

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669373681
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The United States had two agencies that decoded intercepted communications: one in the army and one in the navy. This arrangement may have made the maximum number of bureaucrats happy, but it sometimes led to counterproductive results.

#2

The Government Code Cypher School was created in 1919 to decode messages between the German government and its agents. It was headed by Denniston, who had never run anything before. He disliked anything to do with bureaucracy and administration, but he was needed to decode the messages.

#3

In the early 1920s, the German military began to build up its army beyond the limit set by the Treaty of Versailles. It built secret flying clubs and sent its officers and crews abroad for training.

#4

Hitler had promised the German military that he would purge the SA, his enforcers, in exchange for their support. In June 1934, the officers began executing SA leaders and others deemed suspect. Hitler claimed that 74 people had been killed, but unofficial estimates were much higher.

#5

In 1937, Quex became convinced that war was coming to Britain, and he put his assessment of Hitler into words in a memo to his superiors at the Foreign Office: Among his characteristics are fanaticism, mysticism, ruthlessness, cunning, vanity, moods of exaltation and depression, and what can only be termed a streak of madness.

#6

The cryptography department was looking for the right type of recruit. They wanted men with a certain kind of cleverness, and they found them in Cambridge professors who had ties to King’s College.

#7

After the takeover of Austria, Denniston began recruiting cryptographers. He knew that the problems would be hard, but he wanted the best candidates. He knew that the patience and resourcefulness required would be difficult.

#8

The British government had a codebook named 13040, which was one of two codes used by the German government in January 1917 to send a communication from its foreign minister in Berlin, Arthur Zimmerman, to a German official in Mexico City. The code was cracked by mathematicians.

#9

The recruiting of mathematicians became a higher priority around a year later, following a two-day meeting in July 1939 in which several British representatives met with members of the Polish Cipher Bureau. The British learned to their disbelief that the Poles had been reading German military Enigma messages for most of the past half-dozen years.

#10

On August 28, 1939, the British newspaper The Telegraph published a report by Clare Hollingworth, a young British woman, that described the mass of German tanks waiting to invade Poland. This was of more than usual interest to British readers, as the British had drawn a line against German aggression.