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'The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There' by Sinclair McKay. |
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| Description | 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 written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction OCo from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew HodgesOCO biography of Turing OCo what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them OCo an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military?Sinclair McKayOCOs book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties OCo of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) OCo of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels OCo and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each otherOCOs work.Pre-order the new book, Secret Listeners, by Sinclair McKay. Published on October 4, 2012.Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machineOCOs code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recording by OC the Listening ServiceOCO - 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 Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat." | | Release Date | 2011 | | Author | Sinclair McKay | | Format | Dimensions 12.9x20.0x2.3 cm
336 pages
book | | Publisher | Aurum | | Subject(s) | History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
History / Military / Strategy
History / Military / Weapons
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater
History / World
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Social History |
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