The Codebreakers: The True Story of the Secret Intelligence Team That Changed the Course of the First World War (48 page)

University of California, Berkeley 222

Ursula
12

Van Deman, Ralph 213–16,
214
, 218, 219, 225, 271

Vanderbilt, Alfred G. 38, 39

Venizelos, Eleftherios 137, 138

Verdun, Battle of, 1916 141, 164

Verkehrsbuch
(VB) (German code book) 19–20

Versailles peace conference, 1918 289

Viereck, George Sylvester 40, 83, 84, 197

Vigilancia
198

Villa, General Francisco ‘Pancho’ 64, 188–92, 267

Voska, Emanuel Viktor 70, 78–9, 84, 96

Wagner, Arthur 213–14

War Department, US 216, 218

War Intelligence Centre, German, New York City 62, 75

War Office (WO), British 3, 51, 52, 56, 57, 101, 105, 124, 125, 128, 138, 140, 166, 234, 243, 248, 271, 289, 290

Warreux, Raymond de 266

Wassmuss, Wilhelm 59–60

Wedel, Count George von 146

Weiser, Max 75

Welchman, Gordon 303

Welland Canal, Canada 65–6, 68, 91, 92, 180

Wells, H. G. 131, 306;
The War in the Air
100

Wesendonck, Otto Gunther von 222

Western Front 1, 2–3, 26, 56, 65, 93, 94, 96, 116, 141, 155, 161, 164, 165, 175, 226, 239, 251, 257, 258, 270–1, 277, 280, 281, 300
see also under individual area, battle and place name

Wheatstone, Sir Charles 260

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 22, 24, 31, 36, 39, 44, 52, 63, 73, 99, 100, 145, 186–7, 283, 286, 287

Williams, Trooper Charles 108

Willoughby, Professor Leonard 107

Wilson, Ellen 35

Wilson, Lloyd 180

Wilson, Woodrow 35, 44, 45, 46, 63, 83, 84, 85, 86, 92, 141, 145, 184, 188, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198–9, 209, 212, 215,
217
, 218, 219, 220, 221, 283, 285

Windhoek station, Africa 4

wireless, invention of 2, 3, 4–5, 9–11,
10

wireless telegraph (WT) stations/masts 2, 4, 17–18, 25, 52–3, 139, 140, 204–6, 228, 234, 235–7, 241, 243, 244, 249, 251, 262, 281

Wiseman, Sir William 94, 95, 96, 222

Witzke, Lothar 182, 183

Wodehouse, P. G 219

Woods, Arthur 89

Woolf, Leonard 55, 253

Woolf, Virginia 55, 253

XX Committee, British 304

Yardley, Herbert Osborne 216–17, 218, 271, 272

Yilderim cipher 242

Yinterim code 246

Young, George 60

Ypres: First Battle of, 1914 95, 165, 166, 168; Second Battle of, 1915 93, 94, 174; Third Battle of, (Passchendaele), 1917
259
, 262, 263, 280

Zeppelins 1, 3, 20, 26, 99–109, 150, 160, 237, 241

Zimmermann telegram 185–99, 203, 204, 207, 209, 232, 237, 300

Zimmermann, Arthur 46, 67, 68, 146, 185–99,
186

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James Wyllie:
Without the continued support and encouragement of my family and friends this book would have been more of a struggle and less of a pleasure to write. I hope you all enjoy the results!

Michael McKinley:
I would like to express my deepest thanks to my wife Nancy and my daughter Rose for their inspiration, guidance and patience throughout the process of writing this book. I can’t imagine how I would have done it without them.

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