Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code
Category: ReviewAuthor: Rebecca E.F. BaroneGenres: Action, espionage, Middle Grade, non-fiction, Spy Thriller, Young AdultUnbreakable is the true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ infamous Enigma encryption machine and turned the tide of World War II. As the Germans waged a brutal war across Europe, details of every Nazi plan, every attack, every troop movement were sent over radio. But to the Allied troops listening in—and they were always listening—the crucial messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cipher, making all information utterly inaccessible . . . unless you could unlock the key to the secret code behind the German’s powerful Enigma machine. Complete with more than sixty historical photos, Unbreakable tells the true story of one of the most dangerous war-time codebreaking efforts ever. While Hitler marched his troops across newly conquered lands and deadly “wolfpacks” of German U-Boats prowled the open seas, a team of codebreakers, spies, and navy men raced against the clock to uncover the secrets that hid German messages in plain sight. Victory—or defeat—in World War II would hinge on their desperate attempts to crack the code.“Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code” by Rebecca E. F. Barone is a great read for anyone who’s interested in the details of breaking the famous Enigama Code before and during WWII. This nonfiction telling goes deeply into the events that made achievement possible. The story follows all the actual people involved, i.e. the cryptologists and mathematians Read more