Follow-up to the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, the hitherto-untold story of how young men and women across the world listened in to and intercepted the enemy's radio traffic so that Bletchley Park's codebreakers could turn the course of the war. Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's codes, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by "the Listening Service" - the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war: Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus, as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of...
Follow-up to the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, the hitherto-untold story of how young men and women across the world listened in to a...
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...
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...
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...
This is beautifully slipcased?presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, ?a comprehensive ...
The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley Park Brainteasers and perfect for fans of The GCHQ Puzzle Book. Whether you have linguistic flair, an instinct for technology or good old common sense, pit your wits against some of the greatest minds of our time with ingenious brainteasers including secret languages, sabotage themed brain bogglers, deadly countdowns and hidden codes. Weaving astonishing stories of the men and women who operate from the shadows, the secret heroes and heroines of MI5 and MI6 who have faced extraordinary and terrifying challenges and a wide range of mind...
The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley Park Brainteasers and perfect for fans of The GCHQ Puzzle Book. Whether you have linguistic fla...
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the t...