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Intelligence Investigations

How Ultra Changed History

By: Ralph Bennett

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Intelligence Investigations

How Ultra Changed History

By: Ralph Bennett

Military intelligence, grossly neglected during the interwar period, had by mid-1942 proved itself indispensable through information gathered from intercepted radio messages in the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma cipher. Ralph Bennett, who worked for four years at Bletchley Park as a senior producer of the intelligence (Ultra') derived from the Enigma decrypts, illustrates in this collection of reprinted essays some of the steps by which he and others developed the new type of information and in the process a candid glimpse of the workings of British intelligence both past and present.

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Intelligence Investigations

How Ultra Changed History : Collected Papers of Ralph Bennett

By: Ralph Francis Bennett

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How Ultra Changed History : Collected Papers of Ralph Bennett

By: Ralph Francis Bennett

Military intelligence, grossly neglected in the interwar period, had by mid-1942 proved itself an indispensable instrument of war through the exploitation of radio intelligence derived from decrypts ('Ultra') of the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma cipher. Ralph Bennett, who worked for four years as a senior producer of Ultra at Bletchley Park, illustrates in this collection some of the steps by which he and others developed a new type of history from an archive they had themselves created. This new history, based on practical utility being the primary concern of intelligence, spurned the concept of 'must have been' and rigidly separated supposition from securely ascertained fact. In further essays he goes on to tackle subjects as disparate as the battle of Crete (1941) and the integration of decrypt intelligence with that from double-cross agents. At the end of his fascinating account, he concludes that his wartime experiences have left him with an enhanced regard for strict logical proof - the sine qua non of military intelligence - and with the conviction that historians should shun the speculation which mars so much 'ordinary' history.

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Intelligence Investigations

How Ultra Changed History : Collected Papers of Ralph Bennett

By: Ralph Francis Bennett

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How Ultra Changed History : Collected Papers of Ralph Bennett

By: Ralph Francis Bennett

Reprinted essays by the former Bletchley employee covering 'Ultra' and the development of World War II studies

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Psychology Press

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Television Tightrope

How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS, and Fathered Viacom

By: Ralph Baruch

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Television Tightrope

How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS, and Fathered Viacom

By: Ralph Baruch

The first full insider's account of Viacom's meteoric rise to become the largest entertainment conglomerate in the world, this inspiring account of the life of Ralph Baruch can be read by those seeking to overcome their own personal and professional challenges or simply by those interested by a fullfilling human-interest story. As a teenager, Ralph faced the Pyrenees Mountains separating Nazi-controlled France from Spain as his family fled Hitler's Europe for freedom; in his adult life he faced CBS, government bureaucrats, Hollywood stars and shysters, greedy outsiders coveting Viacom, and the loss of his wife and mother of four young daughters. Intimate and uninhibited, this autobiography also provides a revealing top-to-bottom tour of the television industry with anecdotes of the stars including Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Raymond Burr, Ted Turner, and Mary Tyler Moore.

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