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Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy
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Editorials
Library Journal
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 CongressBooknews
Many books have been written about the British breaking the Ultra code in WWII. This one explores the effect of this coup on the war in the Mediterranean. An interesting examination of the impact of intelligence at the battlefield level. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
February 1, 1989
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780688081751