The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781845136338 (1845136330)
ASIN: 1845136330
Publish date: 2011-08-01
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
War,
Military,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
World War II,
Historical
Having read a few books about Bletchley Park now this is the one that is the most intimate and personal. It does cover the science and technological side of the code breaking, but this is not the primary focus of the book. It is a series of anecdotes and memories of people who worked there, with the...
Bletchley Park -- described as an "idiosyncratic" Victorian house set on 55 acres situated halfway between London and Birmingham --- served during the Second World War as Britain's nerve center for the breaking and deciphering of the German Enigma codes. In reading this story, the reader learns abo...