Cryptanalysis of the Enigma immense problem and it gave a great deal of trouble. Work on a high speed machine had been started by Wynn-Williams of the TRE late in 1941 and some nine months later Harold Keen of BTM started work independently. Early in 1942, Bletchley Park were a long way from possessing a high speed machine of any sort. Eventually, after a long period of being unable to decipher U-boat messages, a source of cribs was found. This was the Kurzsignale (short signals), a code which the German navy used to minimize the duration of transmissions, thereby reducing the risk of being
It Was the War of the Trenches It Was the War of the Trenches It Was the War of the Trenches (original title: "C'était la guerre des tranchées") is a 1993 graphic novel by Jacques Tardi about World War I. It is acclaimed as one of his best works and received praise from Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco. Paul Gravett listed it in his "1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die". "C'était la guerre des tranchées" was pre-published in "A Suivre". The novel is a series of anecdotal stories set in the trenches of World War One. Many are based on stories Tardi remembered from his