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The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park
- Title
- The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park / Sinclair McKay.
- Author
- McKay, Sinclair
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : Plume, [2012]
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Details
- Description
- vi, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- A remarkable look at the day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II.
- Uniform Title
- Secret life of Bletchley Park
- Alternative Title
- Secret life of Bletchley Park
- men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park
- Enigma code at Bletchley Park
- Subjects
- Great Britain > Government Communications Headquarters
- History
- World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Electronic intelligence > Great Britain
- World War (1939-1945)
- England > Milton Keynes > Bletchley Park
- Great Britain > Government Communications Headquarters > History
- Electronic intelligence
- Cryptography
- Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) > History
- 1939-1945
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Originally published as: The secret life of Bletchley Park. London : Aurum, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3843
- ISBN
- 9780452298712
- 0452298717
- LCCN
- 2012018408
- OCLC
- 785077598
- Author
- McKay, Sinclair, author.
- Title
- The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park / Sinclair McKay.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Plume, [2012]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3843