By Jared Samuelson
Historians Keith Bird and Jason Hines join the program to discuss the development of wireless telegraphy on warships, British use of wireless command-and-control, the oft-neglected German naval intelligence failures in the First World War, and the encryption war at sea, all part of their award-winning 2018 paper, In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918.
Download Sea Control 182 – In the Shadows of Ultra with Keith Bird and Jason Hines
Links
1. In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918 by Keith Bird and Jason Hines, The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord. XXVIII (2, 2018). 97-117
2. Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945 by Patrick Beesly, Seaforth Publishing, 2015
3.Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918, by Patrick Bessly, Harcourt, 1983
4. Germany’s First Cryptanalysis on the Western Front: Decrypting British and French Naval Ciphers in World War I, by Hilmar-Detlef Brückner, Crytologia, January 2005
5. “Technology, Shipbuilding and Future Combat in Germany, 1880-1914,” (chapter), Routledge, 2007
6. “Sins of Omission and Commission: A Reassessment of the Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Jutland,” by Jason Hines, Journal of Military History, 2008
7. “Ludwig Föppl: A Bavarian Cryptanalyst on the Western Front,” by Martin Samuels, Cryptologia, 2016
8. The Ultra Secret, by Frederick William Winterbotham, Harper & Row, 1974
Jared Samuelson is the Senior Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at seacontrol@cimsec.org.