Christian Jennings

Christian Jennings is a British author and foreign correspondent, and the author of ten non-fiction books of modern history and current affairs. These include the acclaimed The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German Codebreaking 1939-1945, the first comprehensive account in English of German wartime cryptanalysis. His latest books include Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution, and the current work, The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution. He has lectured for Bletchley Park on German codebreaking, and from 1994-2012 he spent fifteen years reporting for publications such as The Economist and Reuters on international current affairs and complex war crimes investigations, including genocide and its aftermath, across twenty-three countries in the Western Balkans and Africa. He spent nearly ten years alone in Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Congo, Kosovo and Bosnia. Among his other books, four are about the Second World War and its aftermath. Syndrome K: How Italy Resisted the Final Solution, Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS got away with war crimes in Italy, At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy 1944-45, and Flashpoint Trieste: First Battle of the Cold War have been published variously in Great Britain, the US, Italy, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth territories, China and the Czech Republic.