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This is beautifully slipcased?presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, ?a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, to its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum.

Removable memorabilia includes:

• 1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing's name
• Churchill's...

Go behind the scenes of the top-secret setting of The Imitation Game

A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II

Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School--and the site where Germany's legendary Enigma code was finally cracked. There, the nation's most brilliant mathematical minds--including Alan Turing, whose discoveries at Bletchley would fuel the birth of...

Bletchley Park was where one of the warOCOs most famous OCo and crucial OCo achievements was made: the cracking of GermanyOCOs OC EnigmaOCO code in which its most important military communications were couched.

This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to BritainOCOs most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology OCo indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa.

But, though plenty has been...

»Man kann das zwanzigste Jahrhundert nicht verstehen, ohne Berlin zu verstehen; und man kann Berlin nicht verstehen, ohne die Erfahrungen der Menschen dort zu verstehen.«

Sinclair McKay, Berlin

Kaum eine andere Stadt stand im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert so sehr im Zentrum des Weltgeschehens wie Berlin: Ihr Aufstieg zur kosmopolitischen Metropole während der Weimarer Republik, der wirtschaftliche Absturz, die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten, der Zweite Weltkrieg, ihre Teilung, die Wende und der Mauerfall.

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