A Clear Case of Genius: Room 40's Code-Breaking Pioneer

By Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker' Hall, Philip Vickers and Nigel West

In 1933 the Admiralty banned ‘Blinker’ Hall from publishing his autobiography, but here, for the first time, those chapters that survived are presented in full. See what the renowned spymaster had to say about the British Naval Intelligence – the pinnacle of the world’s secret intelligence services. He explores the function of secret intelligence in wartime, censorship, subterfuge, the significance of Churchill in the Dardanelles campaign, the Zimmermann Telegram, the USA’s entry to the First World War and more. With supporting text and images by Philip Vickers and a foreword by expert author Nigel West, A Clear Case of Genius provides a unique insight into the thinking of one of Britain’s pioneering intelligence leaders.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780750985109

Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker' Hall

REGINALD ‘BLINKER’ HALL (1870–1943) was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to 1919, credited with being responsible for bringing the United States into the war in 1917 due to the decoding of the Zimmermann Telegram.