The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKay, Sinclair
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, 2012.
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Government Communications Headquarters > History. World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography. World War, 1939-1945 > Electronic intelligence > Great Britain. Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) > History.

Table of Contents:

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.