Here is the full and fascinating story, based on top secret documents and private sources. It provides a fascinating insight into the shadowy world of Britain's wartime secret services.
"Cracking stuff . . . vivid and hitherto unknown details."–Sunday Times (London)
Filled with new information from secret British and American files as well as exclusive reminiscences from surviving participants, this book at last tells the full story of how Allied code breakers, aided by heroic sailors and spies in the field, cracked Germany’s "uncrackable" Enigma code–and changed the course of the war.
"In a crowd of books dealing with the Allied breaking of the World War II cipher machine Enigma, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore has scored a scoop."–Washington Post
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (London, UK) is a lawyer and journalist who has written for the Sunday Times, the Observer, and the Independent on Sunday. His family owned Bletchley Park–where Enigma was cracked–before selling it to the British government in 1937.
So begins Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis's first briefing at Abu Ghraib. When the U.S. went to war with Iraq, Lagouranis-who joined the Army prior to September 11-was tapped to be an interrogator in places like Abu Ghraib and Fallujah. He believed in his mission, but he soon discovered that pushing the legal limits of interrogation was encouraged. Under orders, he-along with numerous other soldiers-abused and terrorized hundreds of prisoners by adding "enhancements" to "Fear Up Harsh," an official tactic designed to terrify prisoners into revealing information. This is an unflinching first-hand account of how one man struggled with his own conscience and ultimately broke the silence surrounding interrogation practices. The first Army interrogator to step forward and publicly denounce these tactics, Lagouranis reveals what went on in Iraqi prisons-raising crucial questions about American conduct abroad.
