Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with silver spine lettering and beige paper over boards, dust jacket. 496pp. Maps. Very good/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "never-before-told story of how Ultra first proved itself in battle, turning defeat into victory" in World War Two.

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Title

Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy

Publisher

William Morrow and Company, New York

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0688081754

ISBN 13

9780688081751

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Discusses the Allied decoding and counterintelligence efforts in the Mediterranean theater of operations during World War II, revealing how this secret information was used to foil German war plans

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This complements Bennett's fine Ultra in the West ( LJ 10/15/80), adding rich detail on how decrypted German messages (called Ultra) aided in Allied World War II victory in Europe. Specialists and scholars will find useful the applications of Ultra in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Yugoslavia, and interesting his challenge of Correlli Barnett's rating of North African generals in Desert Generals: New Edition ( Indiana Univ. Pr., 1982). Bennett holds that knowing the full importance of Ultra is impossible, for those who made decisions based on it are now dead, or their memories have dimmed with time. In fact , Ultra's role was not revealed until F.W. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret was published in 1974 ( LJ 2/1/75).
- George H. Siehl, Library of Congress
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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