Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1845136837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Bletchley Park was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’s “Enigma” code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology – 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 – from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges’ biography of Turing – what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them – an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? Sinclair McKay’s 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 – of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) – of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels – and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other’s work.
Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: Aurum Press
ISBN: 9781781315347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This beautifully presented slipcased collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, to its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum. Removable memorabilia includes: 1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing's name Churchill's 'Action this day' letter giving code breakers extra resources Handwritten Turing memos Top Secret Engima decryptions, about the sinking of the Bismark, German High Command's assessment of D-Day threat and the message announcing Hitler's suicide A wealth of everyday items such as authentic theatre posters, a map of Bletchley Park, canteen menus, teleprinter print-outs of codes, the Colossus paper tape spooled through machines Newly redesigned interiors with 25% new content, high end slipcase package featuring removable facsimile documents, this is an essential purchase for everyone interested and wanting to experience the place where code-breaking helped to win the war.
Author: Alan Johnson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781503079816
Category : Mathematicians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Are you a movie fan looking forward to seeing The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch? Or a World War II buff with a particular interest in code breaking? Alan Turing, the man who Winston Churchill described as the single biggest contributor to the Allied victory over the Nazis, was a genius of our lifetime and father of the modern day computer. That we can now sit and read books on a computer screen is largely thanks to his early work developing the world's first computer. His code-breaking efforts during the Second World War are thought to have brought forward the end of the war by two years, a remarkable achievement. Recently, recognition of Turing's work has exploded. Bletchley Park where Turing worked during WWII has been restored. It now acts as a major tourist destination and place of historical interest. Turing's story has also now been dramatized in a major new movie starring actor-of-the-moment, Benedict Cumberbatch. The Imitation Game has received rave early reviews and is currently on short lists for Oscar success. Cumberbatch, best-known to us as the inimitable detective in the British TV series, Sherlock, brings this intriguing and heroic man to life with his own unique acting style. In doing so, he tells his story to a generation who need to know just what he achieved and how much he changed the world. But what was this strange, socially awkward man, painfully inept at the common niceties of life, really about? The Bletchley Park Enigma: 200+ Facts on the Story of Alan Turing That Inspired the Smash Hit Movie The Imitation Game Starring Benedict Cumberbatch details the real life story of Alan Turing, his ground-breaking work, his complexities, the ultimate tragedy of his life and his posthumous success. You will learn about: His early work Code breaking at Bletchley Park The post-war years The tragedy of his personal life Efforts to pardon him and honor his work News about The Imitation Game and Benedict Cumberbatch All this put down in a rapid reading format so that you can absorb it super-quick. This is a great companion book to the movie. Don't delay! Pick Up Your Copy of The Bletchley Park Enigma: 200+ Facts on the Story of Alan Turing That Inspired the Smash Hit Movie The Imitation Game Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Right Away!
Author: Jack Treby
Publisher: Carter & Allan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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"I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..." The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and a select band of former and current employees are gathering at the private estate for a weekend of music, dance and heavy drinking. Among them is Sir Hilary Manningham-Butler, a middle aged woman whose entire adult life has been spent masquerading as a man. She doesn't know why she has been invited – it is many years since she left the secret service – but it is clear she is not the only one with things to hide. And when one of the other guests threatens to expose her secret, the consequences could prove disastrous for everyone. Keywords: 1920s, 1929, 1930s, agatha christie, turing, art deco, blackguard, bletchley park mansion. bletchley park novel, bletchley park novels, bletchley mystery, bletchley murder, bletchley murders, bletchley spies, bletchley spy, bletchley park mystery, blecthley park murder, bletchley murders, bletchley spy, british mystery books, code, comedy, comedy detective, comedy novel, comedy detective book, country house, country house murder, country house murder mystery, country house mystery, country house mystery book, cross-dressing, cross dressing, cross dressing detective, cross-dressing detective, cross-dressing novel, cross-dressing books, detective mystery, detective mystery's, drunk detective, enigma, espionage, fanny leon, farce, farcical mystery, female detective, female detectives, female secret agent, flashman, flashman at the charge, flashman and the great game, flashman's lady, flashman and the redskins, fun mystery novel, fun detective novel, fun novel, george macdonald fraser, girl detective, girl detectives, golden age, golden age crime, golden age detective, harry flashman, hilary manningham-butler, sir hilary manningham-butler, sir hilary, historical whodunnit, hopeless detective, jazz age, lady detective, lady detectives, lgbt, lgbt fiction, lgbt mystery, lgbt whodunnit, light mystery, light mystery novel, light novel, living a lie, mi5, mi6, morris oxford, morris oxford car, mystery farce, mystery novel, mystery novels, old-fashioned, old fashioned, pg wodehouse, p.g.wodehouse, p g wodehouse, wodehouse, reluctant detective, roaring twenties, rotter, royal flash, scandal at bletchley, scoundrel, secret agent, secret agents, secret service, sis, spies, spy, butler did it, the butler, butler book, traditional mystery, traditional detective, transvestism, transvestite, transvestite detective, transvestite mystery, unreliable detective, vernon kell, sir vernon kell, vintage detective, vintage detective novel, vintage mystery, whodunnit, woman detective, woman living as a man, woman living as man, woman pretending to be a man, women detectives, women pretending to be men, woman spy, women spies, female spy, female spies, girl spy, girl spies, jazz age murder, jazz age mystery, jazz age detective, bletchley fiction, bletchley novel, bletchley novels, british spy, british spies, english spy, english spies, english murder, english mystery, english murder mystery, code-breaking, lady spy, lady spies, park novel, park mystery, park murder, park whodunnit, stately home book, stately home mystery, stately home murder, stately home whodunnit, wall street crash, twenties, unreliable narrator, oddball mystery, great depression, harry lime, blackmail, blackmailer, jeeves, jeeves and wooster, bertie wooster, kyril bonfiglioli, bonfiglioli, dont point that thing at me, charlie mortdecai, mortdecai, after you with the pistol, something nasty in the woodshed, flash for freedom, flashman and the dragon, flashman and the mountain of light, flashman and the angel of the lord, flashman and the tiger, flashman on the march, mr american, the pyrates, black ajax, the candlemass road, the reavers, captain in calico, audio mystery, audiobook mystery, comedy audio, comedy audiobook
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