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The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age.

• Winner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Middleton Award for a book ... that both exemplifies exceptional scholarship and reaches beyond academic communities toward a broad public audience. • A Kirkus Best Book of 2022 •

Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.

To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, brought in a maverick Engli

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    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 6/22/2021 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780525521549, 978-0525521549
    ISBN10: 0525521542

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age.

    • Winner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Middleton Award for a book ... that both exemplifies exceptional scholarship and reaches beyond academic communities toward a broad public audience. • A Kirkus Best Book of 2022 •

    Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher.

    To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, brought in a maverick Engli

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