Author: MCKAY, SINCLAIR
Title: The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - the History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Were There
Description: London, Aurum Press. 2010. (ISBN: 9781845135393). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 336 pages. 26 photographs. At a rambling Victorian country house in the Buckingham countryside thousands of young men and women had spent the last war working arduously long hours minding deafening Bombe machines, decoding and translating intercepted messages, while some of Britain's most brilliant mathematical minds effectively invented modern computing. The result, and their greatest collective achievement, was the cracking of Germany's 'Enigma' code, in which its most important military communications were couched. Now for the first time the history of Bletchley Park from the point of view of the ordinary men and women who worked there is written. D4E. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Dilly Knox, Peter Twinn, Gordon Welchmancolossus Codebreaking Machine, Dr. Thomas Flowers, Enigma Machine 9781845135393


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