Overview of 2013

I think I’ve written some very interesting essays this year. I covered WWII cryptology, wrote about spies and intelligence operations, presented detailed statistics about various aspects of WWII and debunked several WWII myths.

Let’s have a look at the best essays.

Codes and ciphers:

Codes of the Special Operations Executive-SOE: part 1, part 2 and part 3.

Signals intelligence and the Battle of Stalingrad: part 1 and part 2.

State Department’s strip cipher: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

Turkish codes

Codes of Marshall Tito and General Mihailović

Soviet codebreakers of WWII: part 1 and part 2.

The Pope’s codes

British railways code

Polish diplomatic code: part 1 and part 2.

Spies:

Dienstelle Klatt

The resistance leader ‘King Kong’

 

T-34 tank:

German evaluation of captured Soviet tanks

US report on quality of Soviet tanks

German response against the Soviet T-34 and KV tanks

Recurring problems of Soviet tank design

 

WWII statistics:

German tank strength in the Battle of France 

German AFV production 1939-45

Tank strength and losses – Eastern Front

German AFV losses in the Eastern Front

 

WWII Myths:

The Mortain counterattack

The German war economy

The Me262 jet fighter

Multitude of German AFV types

Battle of Kursk

In writing some of these essays i received help from other people who gave me information and/or documents. I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who’s ever helped me.

Keep in mind that real research costs money. The files that I’ve uploaded and used in my essays had to be copied from either the US or the UK National archives.

If you want to help me copy more files you can do so. The tab on the right that says donate works just fine.