
eBook - ePub
Codebreaker
The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of World War II
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Codebreaker
The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of World War II
About this book
When Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track the movements of a prolific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, it set in motion one of the most remarkable episodes in Irish history. What followed was a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that would wind its way through the capital and its suburbs, reverberate through the corridors of power, test the sympathies of those in high society, and even expand to jeopardise the Allied war effort. Codebreaker is a riveting and deeply researched account of an extraordinary period of history â when Dublin became a hotbed of Nazi intrigue and the fate of an independent Ireland settled on the shoulders of an unassuming employee of the National Library.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Main Characters
- I. Shaking Hands with the Devil
- II. The German Legation Transmitter
- III. A Spy in Meath
- IV. U-boats in Kerry
- V. The Spy with the Microscope
- VI. Joseph Lenihan and the Arrest of Hermann Görtz
- VII. Glass Plates and Spy Trousers: Breaking the Görtz Cipher
- VIII. The German Spy from Co. Clare
- IX. Hermann Görtzâs Last Stand
- X. Irelandâs Greatest Unsung Hero
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- About the Author
- About Gill Books
- Map of Irish landing zones used by Nazi spies during World War II