tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) (08/25/87)
>>>What's YOUR opinion on the "turning point" of World War II? >>Probably something to do with use and breaking of enigma. >Been reading _A_Man_Called_Intrepid_ lately, eh? I've heard from several sources that the above book is not a reliable source of information. There are several good books on enigma available in good libraries if you look hard enough. My favorite is the one on the Polish role in the breaking of enigma. I don't have access to it currently, but the title is something like "Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher was Broken in WW2". I suggest you read it before you come to final conclusions on the relative importance of intelligence vs. blood and guts. >I personally feel that intelligence is vastly overrated in importance. Well, at least we have a clear point of disagreement for a change :-) >It takes blood and guts to carry out the policy that intelligence may >help to decide, but without the flesh and bones to physically beat the >enemy, all the broken codes in the world come to nothing. Without good information and good brains to process it, all the blood and guts in the world come to nothing. Without good strategists all the courage and self-sacrifice in the world can be useless. >Anyway, I'd place the work of Richard Sorge and Rote Kapelle as the most >critical intelligence events of the war. Anyone more knowledgeable about Rote Kapelle care to comment? I haven't has time to study the Rote Kapelle carefully. And the book on Sorge is such tedious reading that I never managed to finish it.
obnoxio@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (08/25/87)
In article <20281@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, tedrick@ernie (Tom Tedrick) writes: >Anyone more knowledgeable about Rote Kapelle care to comment? (My copy is at home, so I may have the author/title somewhat off.) According to Suvorov _Inside Soviet Military Intelligence_, Rote Kapelle was worthless to the Soviets. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720