Did the Allies knowingly send men to death to avoid revealing the cracked enigma?

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*Originally posted by Tuckerfan *
Really? When did the book acquire its tawdry reputation and how did it do so? I’ve seen nothing that contradicts anything I’ve read in it.

I don’t know the details, but it simply isn’t cited by historians these days. And, for example, in his The Griffen (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), having noted several specific absurdities where it touches on atomic bomb research, Kramish notes:

It is no wonder that the latest British edition of A Man Called Intrepid carries the publisher’s warning: “This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are … products of the author’s imagination.”