Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigma [Hardback]by Mavis BateyThis book is OUT OF PRINT You may be able to find a copy at ABE Books Description of Dilly: The Man Who Broke EnigmaDilly is the little known story of the man who did more than anyone else to brake the German Enigma code, an event key to the allies’ ultimate victory in the Second World WarAlfred Dillwyn Knox, known as Dilly, was Britain's leading wartime codebreaker, a famously eccentric and temperamental genius who cracked German ciphers in both wars. The son of a famous religious scholar, Knox worked in the Admiralty's Room 40 codebreaking operation during the First World War, breaking the German Admiral’s Flag Code, and between the wars he deciphered the text of the Herodas papyri and broke the Enigma cipher machine used by Franco's royalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War Knox became Britain's chief cryptographer, working in a cottage at the world-famous Bletchley Park assisted only by his 'girls', the best of the young female codebreakers available to him. Knox's work would eventually provide the solution to German secret service Enigma cipher, playing a key part in the Double-Cross deception system which ensured the success of the 1944 D-Day landings. Knox himself, however, never saw the triumph, sadly dying of cancer in 1943. A top code breaker in her own right, Mavis Batey was one of Knox's female assistants at Bletchley Park. Title Information
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