CODEBREAKERS (PREVIOUSLY TITLED WORLD WAR ONE DECODED)
Book ID/图书代码： 12100014B75845
English Summary/英文概要： Largely forgotten is the story of the WWI code breakers, an eclectic and eccentric group of people, known as Room 40, whose contribution to
winning the war was hugely significant; their intelligence was the life blood of a global espionage operation that tipped the balance in this brutal conflict and its legacy shaped the future of espionage.
Armed with enemy code books that had fallen into Allied hands, they were able to crack naval, secret service and diplomatic codes, listen in to U-Boat communications as they attempted to sink Allied and American shipping, disrupting sabotage operations in the US, tracking and snaring German
spies, creating lightening battle plans on the fly, pulling wireless messages out of the ether and snooping on German efforts to drag neutral countries into the conflict.
The dominating presence of Room 40 was Sir Reginald Hall who commanded a network of field agents stationed across the globe. The cast
of characters were no less extraordinary such as Americans like Captain Howard R. Barnes; women like Lady Hambro who liked smoking cigars at
dinner and Mrs Bailey, a widow prone to love affairs. Canadian General Arthur Currie proved brilliant at using intelligence in battle on the Western Front, where a complex trench code system was developed to try and secure communications. Germany had its own top agents, however: men
like Von Rintelen who was in charge of organising covert operations in the US and code breaker Colonel Fritz Nebel who invented the fiendishly
difficult ADFGX cipher that tormented French code breaking genius Georges Painvin. Painvin nearly killed himself trying to break the code and
in achieving it, was instrumental in the defeat of Germany‟s last great offensive on the Western Front.
This fast-paced and gripping story capitalizes on new research material and for the first time tells of the espionage war on both sides of the Atlantic and where the creation and decryption of intelligence by Room 40 led to Allied victory in WW1.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 第一次世界大战密码破译者的故事几乎被遗忘了，他们是一群折衷和古怪的人，被称作Room 40，对于战争的胜利有着显著的贡献；他们的情报对一个全球间谍组织非常重要，这个组织颠覆了这场残酷战争的平衡，它遗留的东西形成了间谍领域的未来。
有了落入盟军手中的敌人代码书的武装，破译者能够在敌人试图下沉盟军和美国航运时，破解海军，特务和外交密令，监听U型潜艇的通信，他们可以扰乱在美国的破袭战，追踪并挖掘德国间谍，创建战机闪电作战计划，截取空中无线信号和窥探德国试图将中立国家卷入战争的阴谋。
Room40由Sir Reginald Hall掌控，他指挥着遍布全球各区域的网络。书中选择的都是非常不平凡的人物，其中的美国人比如 Howard R. Barnes长官；女人，比如Lady Hambro，她喜欢在吃饭时抽雪茄 和Mrs Bailey，一个容易恋爱的寡妇。加拿大将军Arthur Currie在西线作战中展现了其运用情报的才能，在那里一套复杂的沟槽代码系统被开发出来并用于安全通信。然而，德国拥有顶尖的机构，例如Von Rintelen这样的人就负责组织在美国的秘密组织，以及密码破译者Colonel Fritz Nebel，有很高难度的ADFGX密码的发明者，在折磨着法国密码破译天才Georges Painvin。在试图破译这些密码时， Painvin几乎要被折磨死，这对于抵御德国在西线的最后一次大进攻有很大作用。
这个快节奏并且扣人心弦的故事利用了新的研究材料，并且首次讲述了在大西洋两岸的间谍战争以及Room40在盟军第一次世界大战中创造和解码的智慧。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Michael McKinley 是一个屡获殊荣的作家，导演，记者和编剧，曾就读于英国哥伦比亚大学，和圣约翰学院，牛津大学。他为英格兰和北美著名的报纸和杂志，赢得了无数的奖项。他是《After 60》的作者：一段关于加拿大曲棍球之夜和刑罚杀戮的历史，小说在2011年入围Arthur Ellis Crime小说奖。他合作创作并制作出电视剧，The Atticus Project，对年轻读者来说他第一次世界大战间谍系列Spies Among Us以及青年小说Spats的作者，居住在纽约。
James Wyllie在成为变成作家，获奖编剧，广播员和研究员之前曾在剑桥念历史。他写了Goering and Goering: Hitler‟s Henchman以及他的Anti-Nazi Brother (历史出版社)。他是第一位e Carl Foreman/BAFTA奖的获得者，并从那以后开始为电视剧写剧本，包括包括长期热播剧The Tribe和宗派喜剧Atlantics High。他还写作，研究并合作主持了8集BBC电台3系列Jazz Legends, 居住在伦敦。
Michael McKinley is an award-winning author,
filmmaker, journalist and screenwriter and was
educated at the University of British Columbia,
and St. John‟s College, University of Oxford. He
has won numerous awards writing for prestigious
newspapers and magazines in England and North
America. He is the author of After 60: A History
of Hockey Night in Canada and The Penalty Killing, a novel shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Crime Writing Award in 2011. He co-created and produced the TV drama series, The Atticus Project, and is author of the upcoming young readers World War I espionage series Spies Among Us, and the young adult novel Spats. He lives in New York City.
James Wyllie read History at Cambridge University before becoming an author, award-winning screenwriter, broadcaster and researcher. He wrote Goering and Goering: Hitler‟s Henchman and his Anti-Nazi Brother (The History Press). He was the first winner of the Carl Foreman/BAFTA Award and has been
writing screenplays for TV ever since, including
the long-running hit series The Tribe and the cult
comedy Atlantis High. He also wrote, researched
and co-hosted 8 episodes of the BBC RADIO 3 series Jazz Legends. He lives in London.
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