Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When conditions in the camp improved after Stalin's death in 1953, Dolgun added, many of Zoya's films, like the ultra-patriotic Boyevye Podrugi (Comrades at Arms), were shown to the prisoners. But Zoya's name was obliterated from the credits. In 1955 Zoya was released and reunited with her daughter. Since then Zoya has returned to films as a character actress, and Victoria has become a famous movie actress herself. She has been featured in 17 major films, and starred as a deaf-mute in A Ballad of Love. When Ballad was released...
According to Winterbotham, Ultra's successes justified even Coventry. Tip-offs of enemy intent affected almost every phase of the war. During the Battle of Britain, Ultra's eavesdropping on Goring's scheme for using his 3-to-1 superiority in planes to "wipe the British Air Force from the sky" helped the R. A.F. deploy and husband its forces until the Luftwaffe, crippled too, abandoned the attempt. It was Ultra and not General Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British...
Later, during the Allied breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula, came a Hitlerian command reflex that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would...
Long Overdue. Ultra must surely be one of the best-kept military secrets of all time. A ban even on references to Ultra was enforced in Britain until this spring. Texts of deciphered messages are still locked up in Whitehall. One result is that Winterbotham, now 76, who served as the R.A.F.'s representative in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, had to assemble this book largely from memory. "I am the only person alive who knows the whole story." He told TIME, "I didn't want my memory to start going before I got it all down...
...Ultra Secret is a tremendous story, inadequately told, like a long-ago anecdote shared over cigars in an officer's mess. Typically, the Coventry section is confined to one paragraph. But the subject cries out for more ample treatment. Winterbotham speaks from personal knowledge; this is his book's strength, but also its limitation. He cites tributes to Ultra, including one from Eisenhower who said its intelligence contribution had "shortened the war." Rather qualified praise, apparently. What is needed now is the view from someone closer to the crucial command decisions, to confirm, or to question. Ultra...