Author: McKay, Sinclair,
Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF BLETCHLEY PARK - The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women who Worked There.
Description: Aurum, London, 2011, reprint, trade paperback, vi, 336pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of the birth and WW2 life of Staion 'X', the codename for Bletchley Park the home of GC & CS, the Goverement Code and Cypher School, which had been moved out of London in 1938/39. This account is based on the personal recollections of thosee who worked there, on the most part the ordinary men and women thrown together with some of Britain's most brilliant brains to decrypt enemy messages and having been made to sign the Official Secrets Act lived in fear of ever being able to tell their stories for over 60 years, a little rubbed at extrems., faint vertical crease in spine, edges tanned, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 bletchley park codebreaking


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