A Clear Case of Genius: Room 40''s Code-Breaking Pioneer

About Admiral Sir Reginald 'Blinker' HallReginald Hall

REGINALD BLINKER HALL (18701943) was the British Director of Naval Intelligence from 1914 to 1919 credited with being responsible for bringing the United States into the war in 1917 due to the decoding of the Zimmermann Telegram. PHILIP VICKERS is a member of the Royal Marines Historical Society and has written Finding Thoroton for them. He has been given the blessings of the Hall literary estate and the Churchill Archives to present Halls autobiography in its full form. NIGEL WEST has written numerous books on security and intelligence topics and was voted The Experts Expert by The Observer. He is the recipient of the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award and has spent many years at the Counterintelligence Centre in Washington DC. His highly acclaimed works include Double Cross in Cairo: MI5 in the Great War Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II Churchills Spy Files and Spycraft Secrets (2017).