British Intelligence in the Second World War; Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Volume One
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 601, [1] pages. Volume 1 ONLY. Color endpaper maps. Abbreviations. Footnotes, Appendices. Map. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some ink underlining and marginal marks noted. Sir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE (26 November 1918 – 16 February 1998) was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War. Hinsley helped initiate a programme of seizing Enigma machines and keys from German weather ships, such as the Lauenburg, thereby facilitating Bletchley Park's resumption of interrupted breaking of German Naval Enigma. Hinsley produced, with others, the multi-volume official history British Intelligence in the Second World War, and argued that Enigma decryption had speeded Allied victory by 1–4 years while not fundamentally altering the war's outcome. After the war, Hinsley returned to St John's College. More