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Anyone who has read Robert Harris's Enigma or anything else connected to Bletchley Park in WW2 would recognise the code breaking described here. This is, however, a book about the Polish team who originally decoded Enigma in 1932. The man whose life we follow from his childhood to his death is Marian Rejewski. He joins a team of talented mathematicians at Poznan University who are inducted into Cryptography and asked to become secret code breakers. The story is very convincingly it shows the travails of this team. The author makes it clear that this is a work of fiction, but the details of events seem very accurate. The men have to leave their families when the Germans invade and move from place to place in Europe and North Africa, always working on code breaking. The intensity of their efforts in the face of enemy attacks and with the constant fear of betrayal is palpable. It seems that the Germans never realised that their code had been broken but their constant updating of the system caused a huge amount of work for the decoders. I liked the way that the enormous Polish and French contribution to the decoding of Enigma messages was made clear. Indeed, without their work there would have been a far greater loss of life in WW2. You could describe this as a thriller with considerable technical input about decoding or as a biography of a Polish mathematician through WW2. A coda to the book brings the story of the decoders up to date. For anyone interested in this topic and in the hardships of WW2 this book is fascinating. PROMOTING CRIME FICTION BLOG SPOT -JENNIFER S PALMER CAPTIVATING, COMPELLING, FACINATING Iain Bayne, Runrig. A marvellous book-an unknown story John Vanderhof

Anyone who has read Robert Harris's Enigma or anything else connected to Bletchley Park in WW2 would recognise the code breaking described here. This is, however, a book about the Polish team who originally decoded Enigma in 1932. The man whose life we follow from his childhood to his death is Marian Rejewski. He joins a team of talented mathematicians at Poznan University who are inducted into Cryptography and asked to become secret code breakers. The story is very convincingly it shows the travails of this team. The author makes it clear that this is a work of fiction, but the details of events seem very accurate. The men have to leave their families when the Germans invade and move from place to place in Europe and North Africa, always working on code breaking. The intensity of their efforts in the face of enemy attacks and with the constant fear of betrayal is palpable. It seems that the Germans never realised that their code had been broken but their constant updating of the system caused a huge amount of work for the decoders. I liked the way that the enormous Polish and French contribution to the decoding of Enigma messages was made clear. Indeed, without their work there would have been a far greater loss of life in WW2. You could describe this as a thriller with considerable technical input about decoding or as a biography of a Polish mathematician through WW2. A coda to the book brings the story of the decoders up to date. For anyone interested in this topic and in the hardships of WW2 this book is fascinating. PROMOTING CRIME FICTION BLOG SPOT -JENNIFER S PALMER CAPTIVATING, COMPELLING, FACINATING Iain Bayne, Runrig. A marvellous book-an unknown story John Vanderhof

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Eilidh was born and brought up in the Highlands of Scotland. She studied law at Aberdeen University and worked a a lawyer, specializing in criminal defense for 12 years before moving to the south west of France where she now lives. Eilidh has always been passionate about history.

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