A battle lost: re-examining the role of German radio intelligence in the Battle of GumbinnenFootnote^*

^*This is an expanded version of papers presented at the 2011 Cryptologic History Symposium and in 2014 at the University of Calgary’s international conference ‘The Great War’s Shadow: New Perspectives on the First World War.’

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