RadCom April 2024, Vol. 100, No. 4

www.rsgbshop.org Radio Society of Great Britain, 3 Abbey Court, Priory Business Park, Bedford, MK44 3WH Tel: 01234 832700 FREE P&P FROM on orders over £30. See Page 62 E&OE (All prices displayed plus p&p) RSGB SHOP RSGB Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War By Dermot Turing Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in WWII alongside the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. However, it was very nearly not like that at all. Both sides in WWII ignored evidence that their codes were being broken and the consequences of that could have led to very different outcomes. Whilst there was an excellence in codebreaking for the Allies, it was nearly betrayed by incompetence in code making. German codebreakers were effective and Allied codes and ciphers were weak. The Germans believed that Enigma was uncrackable, even when the evidence of compromise was clear. Enigma Traitors is a hardback book written by well-known author Dermot Turing and explores this story as never before. Size 156x234mm, 320 Pages, Hardback, ISBN: 9781 8039 9169 6 Non Members: £22.00, RSGB MEMBERS: £14.99 (32% OFF) War Diaries A Radio Amateur in Kyiv By Volodymyr Gurtovy, US7IGN How often can a radio amateur say “all of a sudden it is rarer to meet an unarmed person than people with weapons… and the corpses on the street cease to surprise you”. For the well-known radio amateur Volodymyr Gurtovy, US7IGN these are amongst his thoughts as a Ukrainian living through the current war. Written in Volodymyr’s own unedited words, War Diaries is a diary of the first six months of the conflict from the perspective of a radio ham trying to have a ‘normal’ life in extraordinary times. Featured on a BBC ‘Short Cuts’ podcast about radio during the conflict, Volodymyr continues to very much, identify himself as a radio amateur. War Diaries provides a unique insight into one radio amateur’s life in a war zone. Size 127x203mm, 144 pages, ISBN 9781 9139 9535 5 Non Members: £9.99, RSGB MEMBERS: £8.49 They Talk Along the Deep A global history of the Valentia Island telegraph cables By Donard de Cogan, M0KRK The development of deep sea trans-Atlantic cables was one of the great Victorian technologic developments. But its tenure as the main technology from trans-Atlantic communications was only a few decades. This book looks at both the huge technological developments behind the cables and the importance of a tiny station on Valentia Island on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. They Talk Along the Deep takes a global view of the history and considers how external factors aided the development and eventual decline of cable telegraphy. This book is concerned with how this all came about, the people who were involved and what the wider effects of these innovations were. Size: 205x254mm, 304 pages, ISBN: 9781 9139 9534 8 Non Members: £19.99, RSGB MEMBERS: £16.99