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Country United Kingdom Set in WWII Media type Print (hardback) Originally published 4 September 1995 Genre Historical drama ISBN 0091779235 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 4 September 1995 OCLC 32626914 Publisher Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Enigma is a 1995 novel by Robert Harris about Tom Jericho, a young mathematician trying to break the Germans' "Enigma" ciphers during World War II. Jericho is stationed in Bletchley Park, the British cryptologist central office, and is worked to the point of physical and mental exhaustion. The book was adapted to film in 2001.
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The book, though fiction, is criticised by people who were at Bletchley Park as bearing little resemblance to the real wartime Bletchley Park.
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