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
The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton. Taylor had previously written "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe", which covered the period 1848 until 1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography: I wanted to be writing something and decided that I could carry on my diplomatic history from the point where the "Struggle for Mastery" left off. I had, I thought, done most of the