Rabu, 07 Maret 2018

The Art of the Double Cross

With an audacious scheme that paired Enigma decrypts with a network of turned enemy spies, Britain pitted Germany against itself throughout the war. In early 1941, an astonishing idea began to dawn on John Masterman, a British official whose fluent knowledge of German, skill at interrogation of enemy prisoners, and more than a little Machiavellian …

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