Name: Decrypting the Codes
Description: This six part series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought out far from the bombs and shells of any battlefront. A war that involved the brilliant skills of mathematicians and chess players.

This six part series takes you to the heart of a war that was fought out far from the bombs and shells of any battlefront. A war that involved the brilliant skills of mathematicians and chess players.

The Men of Room 40 solidified a new necessity for war during WWI: codebreaking.

Men of Room 40

The German Enigma machines were portable cipher units with a set of rotors to encode scrambled signals which changed regularly, and they were the main tool for coordinating secret attacks.

Rise of Enigma

The Purple Cipher was probably one of the most complex codes used during WWII.

Breaking of Purple

The Battle of Midway, fought in the Pacific during WWII, took place on June 5th, 1942.

Midway: The True Story

This episode concentrates on the work of the code breakers in the then-secret Bletchley Park.

Enigma Variations

This final episode covers the American and British efforts to protect their convoys.

Decrypting the Codes

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