The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park /
Describes the vastly different types of people working alongside each other at Britain's Government Code and Cypher School and how they passed their time at this extraordinary facility when they weren't working on projects vital to saving the world.
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New York, N.Y. :
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2012, c2010.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The secret lives of codebreakers : |b the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park / |c Sinclair McKay. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park |
| 260 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b Penguin Group, |c 2012, c2010. | ||
| 300 | |a 338 pages, [8] pages of plates : |b illustrations, portraits ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Previous ed.: The secret life of Bletchley Park : the WWII codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there / Sinclair McKay, 2010. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Reporting for duty -- 1938-39: The school of codes -- 1939: Rounding up the brightest and the best -- The house and the surrounding country -- 1939: How do you break the unbreakable? -- 1939-40: The Enigma initiation -- Freezing billets and outdoor loos -- 1940: the first glimmers of light -- 1940: inspiration and intensity -- 1940: The coming of the bombes -- 1940: Enigma and the Blitz -- Bletchley and the class question -- 1941: The Battle of the Atlantic -- Food, booze and too much tea -- 1941: The wrens and their larks -- 1941: Bletchley and Churchill -- Military or civilian? -- 1942: Grave setbacks and internal strife -- The rules of attraction -- 1943: A very special relationship -- 1943: The hazards of careless talk -- Bletchley and the Russians -- The cultural life of Bletchley Park -- 1943-44: The rise of the colossus -- 1944-45: D-Day and the end of the war -- 1945 and after: The immediate aftermath -- Bletchley's intellectual legacy -- After Bletchley : the silence descends -- The rescue of the Park. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Cryptography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Electronic intelligence |z Great Britain. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Bletchley (Buckinghamshire, England) |x History. | |
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