Lorenz

Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park

By: Jerry Roberts

Narrated by: Neil Gardner

The breaking of the Enigma machine is one of the most heroic stories of the Second World War and highlights the crucial work of the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, which prevented Britain's certain defeat in 1941. But there was another German cipher machine, used by Hitler himself to convey messages to his top generals in the field. A machine more complex and secure than Enigma. A machine that could never be broken.

For 60 years no one knew about Lorenz or 'Tunny', or the determined group of men who finally broke the code and thus changed the course of the war. Many of them went to their deaths without anyone knowing of their achievements. Here, for the first time, senior codebreaker Captain Jerry Roberts tells the complete story of this extraordinary feat of intellect and of his struggle to get his wartime colleagues the recognition they deserve.

The work carried out at Bletchley Park during the war to partially automate the process of breaking Lorenz, which had previously been done entirely by hand, was groundbreaking and is recognised as having kick-started the modern computer age.

©2017 Jerry Roberts (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

A memoir.

Too much about the author and his griefs and not enough about breaking the code.

Important Story but the last third of the book was unnecessary

Authors role in history is an important and inspiring story - but the reader doesn’t want to hear the story of a market researcher in the post war years. The editors should have kept the author focused on his purpose and not allowed so much of the text to ramble and engage in such repetition of his desire to see more recognition of those who worked at Bletchley Park - and the Lorenz

Boring, repeats the same stuff numerous times

Boring, repeats the same stuff numerous times
Like to list names of the same people again and again

good story if told better and briefer