The Third Reich Is Listening

Inside German Codebreaking 1939-45

De: Christian Jennings

Narrado por: Simon Shepherd

The codebreakers at Bletchley Park have been immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma, but the Germans were also breaking Allied ciphers. The Third Reich Is Listening is the comprehensive account of the successes, failures and science of Germany's codebreaking and signals intelligence operations from 1935 to 1945.

This fast-moving blend of modern history and popular science is told through colourful personal accounts of the Germans at the heart of the story, including a former astronomer who worked out the British order of battle in 1940, a U-boat commander on the front line of the Battle of the Atlantic and the woman from the foreign ministry decrypting Japanese and Italian signals.

It investigates how and why a regime as technologically advanced as the Third Reich both succeeded and failed in its battle to break their enemy's codes and to use the resultant intelligence effectively, and why they failed to recognise the fact that the Allies had cracked the enigma code.

©2018 Christian Jennings (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

Misleading Title

This book is really about England's involvement in WWII. The author goes into great detail about the British navy. What ships are where. How many guns they have etc which is irrelevant to code-breaking. WWII in the European theater was mostly a land war. What this book really is is a book about England during WWII. But if the author released another of the 1000s of British books about England during WWII nobody would buy it. So the author changed the name as a marketing ploy. Skip this book, it is awful. The little the book discusses German code-breaking is really German code-breaking from the British perspective. If you want a book on code-breaking "Enigma" is much better, due out in audio format is 12/2022. I also recommend "Joe Rochefort's War" about the US breaking the Japanese code.