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War of shadows, codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East, Gershom Gorenberg

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-454) and index

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War of shadows

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Gershom Gorenberg

codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East

"As World War II rages in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel marches his troops swiftly through Egypt, aiming to overrun he entire Middle East. An uncanny sense of his enemies' weaknesses and positions informs each move. The Nazis, somehow, have a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet Rommel is not the only one with stolen knowledge. Allied cryptographers are breaking the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. On the brink of disaster, a fevered, high-stakes search for the Nazis' source begins."--Dust jacket flap

Curtain rising: last train from Cairo -- All quiet on the Nile. "Report for duty, in accordance with the instructions you have received" ; The seductive curves of the dunes ; Next king of the Nile ; The machine is the future ; The flaw in the machine is the man ; The oracles -- The wager. The keystone in the arch ; War of shadows ; Sandstorm ; Half-shared secrets ; The lady who spied on spies ; The oracles speak gibberish -- A particularly reliable source. The woman of daunting intelligence ; Mare incognitum ; Spies, everywhere -- "The matter becomes of extreme urgency". Compromised ; Inside information -- Line in the sand. El alamein ; Unknown soldiers -- Epilogue

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