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Enigma is a novel by Robert Harris, about Tom Jericho, a young mathematician trying to break the Germans' "Enigma" ciphers during World War II. It was adapted to film in 2001. He is stationed in Bletchley Park, the British cryptologist central office, and is worked to the point of exhaustion.
Apart from the plot, the book is notable for its grim descriptions of winter in a war-torn Britain.
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A Higher Form of Killing: Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare (1982, with Jeremy Paxman) · Gotcha! The Government, the Media and the Falklands Crisis (1983) · The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984) · Selling Hitler: Story of the Hitler Diaries (1986) · Good and Faithful Servant: Unauthorized Biography of Bernard Ingham (1990)
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