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Sep 25, 2012 · Go behind the scenes of Bletchley Park, where everyday men and women risked everything for Queen and Country. A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine...
- Sinclair McKay
- Penguin, 2012
- illustrated, reprint
Go behind the scenes of Bletchley Park, where everyday men and women risked everything for Queen and Country. A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II. Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate.
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- Sinclair McKay
May 25, 2010 · During WWII England's MI6 recruited men and women from every walk of life to help break the German's code Enigma, in order to find out their battle plans and hopefully save lives, not to mention win the war. Sinclair McKary introduces us to each person and type of person that was chosen to break Germany's enigma code.
At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in the Allied victory in World War II.
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- Sir John Dermot Turing
- American Cryptanalyst Elizabeth Smith Friedman
- Polish Codebreaker Marian Rejewski
- Wwii Bletchley Park Codebreaker Joan Clarke
- American NSA Codebreaker Leo Rosen
- The Black Women Codebreakers of Arlington Hall Station
Groundbreaking codebreaker and Shakespeare enthusiast Elizebeth Friedman was admiring one of the Bard’s folios at Chicago’s Newberry Library when a contact offered to introduce her to George Fabyan. The eccentric millionaire was convinced Sir Francis Bacon had planted a cipher within Shakespeare’s texts indicating Bacon was the true author of Shake...
After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Marian Adam Rejewski taught at a Polish university and worked part-time at a Cipher Bureau decoding intercepted German radio transmissions. The German-speaking cryptologist continued his work in Warsaw as the Nazis gained power in the 1930s and eventually used documents obtained by French intelligence ...
Joan Clarke, once engaged to Alan Turing, was a key member of Britain’s Bletchley Park codebreakers, working alongside Turing and Hugh Alexander in Hut 8 where they broke the German cipher system Enigma. The London-born mathematician won a scholarship to Cambridge, where she gained a double first degree in mathematics although that was just a title...
While the British codebreakers were hard at work, American ROTC graduate Leo Rosen was called up to active duty with the Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS). American codebreakers had devised a ‘paper and pencil’ method to solve one aspect of the Japanese machine cipher system known as ‘Purple’. Without having ever seen Tokyo’s cipher system, Ro...
While little is known about the top-secret Black Women Codebreakers of Arlington Hall Station, the unit played a critical role in WWII. They helped Allied forces target Axis leaders and enemy ships, and they are believed to have helped coordinate the D-Day invasion. Their command center was Arlington Hall Station, a former women’s junior college. A...
Nov 14, 2014 · As The Imitation Game, a film charting the work of computing pioneer Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park during the second world war, is released, Stephanie Boland rounds up four other...
From cracking the Nazi’s enigma code to intervening in colossal global events such as the Falklands War and the Cuba crisis, the world would look very different today without these incredible minds.
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