Dilly

by Batey, Mavis

• ISBN13: 9781906447151
• ISBN10: 1906447152
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-01
• Publisher: Dialogue

Summary

Alfred "Dilly" Knox was Britain's leading wartime codebreaker, an eccentric genius who did more than anyone to decipher the Nazi Enigma codes, thereby shortening the war. Mavis Batey worked at Bletchley Park during the war; few knew Dilly better. She advised Kate Winslet on her role in the film Enigma.

Author Biography

Mavis Batey was one of 'Dilly's girls', the young female codebreakers allocated to help him break the various Enigma ciphers. Batey, the author of numerous books, advised Kate Winslet, star of the film Enigma, on what it was like to be one of the few female codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Preface	p. xvii
Chronology of events	p. xix
The making of a codebteaker	p. 1
Room 40	p. 13
Alice in ID25	p. 31
Between die wars	p. 41
Enigma	p. 56
The Warsaw conference	p. 73
Bletchley Park as war station	p. 85
Dilly's girls	p. 105
The Batde of Matapan	p. 118
Dilly and the Spy Enigma	p. 131
Dilly's'personal scouts'	p. 143
Farewell	p. 160
Appendices
Introduction to the Appendices	p. 168
'SECRET: Directions for Use of Keys for the Enigma I Cipher Machine'	p. 170
'Rodding'	p. 174
'Buttoning-up'	p. 189
Report on the 'Lobster Enigma'	p. 206
Abwehr and SD cipher machines attacked by the ISK section	p. 210
Glossary	p. 215
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 236
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