Like a good book, a visually rich film mesmerizes the human mind for some days. The movie I am referring to is 1917 which I saw yesterday. Based on the WW1, the movie is a good ‘textbook’ for both history and literary lovers and is also technically perfect as the whole movie is composed of a single camera shot. Today’s Books and Authors present a book which is based on the Enigma machine which was used by the German navy to take out the English ships. The book is titled as Enigma - the battle for the code. The book delves deeper into the story of the Enigma machine and it will be an interesting read for individuals who are curious about the past. The book takes us beyond the scenes from the movie - Imitation Game which chronicled the life and times of Alan Turing. It is a commonly held belief that Alan Turing broke the code and saved hundreds of British U-boats and ships. The book tells us that the encoding the Enigma machine happened due to the sacrifice of ordinary British seamen who risked and sometimes lost their lives in the battle for the code. They are the ones who captured Enigma codebooks and manuals which led to the team at Bletchley Park to break the code. The capture of the Enigma spy, Hans Thilo Schmidt also was also an important step towards the cracking of the code. Bletchley Park is an important historical site and to quote from the website https://bletchleypark.org.uk. ‘Bletchley Park is a place of exceptional historical importance. It remains highly relevant to our lives today and for the future. It is the home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict’.
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