by Jim DeBrosse
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Yale University
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Yardley, Herbert O.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JIM DEBROSSE grew up in Dayton and graduated from Harvard and Columbia. He has worked as a reporter for a number of newspapers and is currently a features writer for the Dayton Daily News. He’s the author of three mystery novels published by St. Martin’s Press and has won numerous journalism awards, including the National Press Club Award.
COLIN BURKE graduated from San Francisco State College. After almost two decades as a professional musician, he obtained a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He taught at University of Maryland Baltimore County, and researched, wrote, and lectured in several fields. Among his published works are Information and Secrecy and American Collegiate Populations. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and major private foundations. He has recently been a Research Fellow at Yale University’s Program on Nonprofit Organizations and also the Eugene Garfield Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Copyright © 2004 by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
DeBrosse, Jim.
The secret in Building 26: the untold story of America’s Ultra war against the U-boat Enigma codes / by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
e-ISBN 1-58836-353-8
1. World War, 1939–1945—Cryptography. 2. Enigma cipher system. 3. Cryptography—United States—History—20th century. 4. U.S. Naval Computing Machine Laboratory—History. 5. Desch, Joseph. I. Burke, Colin B., 1936– II. Title.
D810.C88D43 2004 940.54'8673—dc22 2003058494
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